AS the National Assembly engages Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, in the on-going defence of 2017 Appropriation Bill, Senate President, Bukola Saraki, said yesterday the National Assembly would emphasise why they should patronize locally-produced goods during implementation of the budget.

EDO State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Benin has overruled the objections of counsel to the respondents, namely, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Godwin Obaseki and All Progressives Congress, APC, to stop a witness subpoeaned by the tribunal from testifying before it, saying, “Subpoenaed witnesses are competent witnesses, especially when the respondents are put on notice.”

Several years after the clean up of the toxic waste dumped on the riverine town of Agbere, in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State by the Nigerian Agip Oil Company NAOC, indigenes of the community are yet to overcome the negative effect on their environment.

Ebonyi State government yesterday said it was targeting a total of 557,000 children, 139,000 pregnant women and 613, 000 women of child bearing age for the state’s immunization exercise.

The Anambra State House of Assembly committee on transport has summoned the Senior Special Adviser to Governor Willie Obiano on Internally Generated Revenue, Mr Melie Onyejepu over discrepancies in the revenue generation in the state.