THE Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, yesterday, stated that more than N30billion has so far been paid to investors in the Nigerian capital market from the backlog of unclaimed dividends worth over N80 billion.

An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court, yesterday, ordered the remand of one Momodu Rebo, 19, and Isiaka Idris, 22, in prison custody over alleged destruction of farm crops.

For allegedly killing his biological son, the Omu-Aran Traditional Council has banished a commercial motorist, Kehinde Akangbe, from the community.

The Federal Government has allocated a total of N40 billion to the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, to enable it execute various power projects across the country under the 2017 fiscal proposal.

IN a bid to meet the ‘Sustainable Energy For All’ (SE4ALL) benchmark set by the federal government, stakeholders in the renewable energy sub-sector have called on the federal government to provide enabling environment to engender development.

Benue State Police Command has commenced manhunt for the masterminds of the killing, last Sunday, of 10 members of the Civilian Joint Task Force, C-JTF, by gunmen at Abaji in Katsina-Ala Local Government Area of the state.

Members of the Breast Cancer Survivor Support group of Care Organisation Public Enlightenment, COPE, have appealed to the Federal Government to go back to the drawing board and make the nation’s health policy more robust with a view to improving cancer treatment.

Teachers in public primary and secondary schools in Abia have embarked on strike to protest alleged government’s failure to pay their salaries.

SURVIVAL is the ultimate for cancer patients in Nigeria and this is where the likes of Kehinde George, Mary Akonde and Helen Akpan are three of a kind. They are breast cancer survivors with different stories tied to a common destiny.

AMAZABA—TEN years after a communal clash which sacked the people of Amazaba of Eastern Obolo Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, from their community, leaders of the area have accused the State Government and the Nigeria Police Force of taking sides with the people of Ikot Akpan Udo community in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area of the state, to prevent them from returning to their villages.

The recently inaugurated Senator Ken Nnamani led Committee on Electoral Reforms is about to kick start a round of public hearings in the six geo-political zones of the country where members hope to receive inputs from the general public towards reinforcing the bedrocks that define Nigeria’s Constitution and Electoral Laws in particular. These, of course, would ordinarily have been very laudable strides, but for the fact that the exercise is a journey that Nigeria had undergone several times in the past.

OKOLOBA—PANIC has gripped indigenes of the riverside Okoloba community in Kolokuma-Opokuma Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, following the recurring landslide ravaging their locality.

There were indications yesterday that the kidnappers of 10 students and staff of the Nigerian Turkish International College, NTIC, Ogun State have reduced their earlier demand of N1.2 billion ransom for the release of the abducted persons, to N750 million.

The Federal Government, yesterday, adduced evidence to prove its allegation that Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court, Abuja received gratification from a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Mr. Joe Agi, in the discharge of his judicial function.

EFFURUN—THE Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, has ordered the Army Special Investigation Bureau to investigate an allegation by a Delta State-based clergy man, Pastor Godwin Ayube, that a soldier attached to the Nigerian Army, 3 Battalion, Effurun Barracks, unlawfully collected N40,000.00 for bail from him, December 11, last year.