MANAGING Director of Richard Continental Hotel, Sapele, Delta State, Mr Richard Okotie, has called on the authorities of the Nigerian Army and the Police to investigate the alleged invasion of his hotel premises by some solders and policemen, led by men of the Sapele vigilantes.

Rivers State governor, Mr Nyesom Wike, has said that his administration will continue to invest in the creation of access to justice for the people of the state.

IN continuation of the enforcement of speed limiting device, RS 5.2 Unit Command, Agbor, Delta State, of the Federal Road Safety Corps has instituted a mobile court at Alifekede, Agbor, for traffic offenders.

THE Federal Government, yesterday, apologized to the people of South East over the destructive activities of herdsmen in the region and assured that permanent solution was being worked out to stop the menace.

SAPELE— ANGRY residents protesting lack of electricity at Sapele, Sapele Local Government Area, Delta State, weekend, laid siege to the Warri-Benin City highway, leaving motorists and travellers stranded for over two hours.

Coach Rafa Benitez has dismissed reports linking him with a move to China.

THE political quagmire rocking the Labour Party, LP, yesterday got to its climax as it finally split.

At the end of last year, the Integrated FoodSecurity Phase Classification (IPC) issued a special alert on the situation in Borno State that confirmed the FEWS NET finding that a famine had likely occurred between April and August in some IDP areas and in nearby inaccessible areas of Borno States.

Worried about the present state of the country’s pharmaceutical sector, community pharmacists have urged the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency in the industry even as they called for bailout fund for local pharmaceutical manufacturers to save the sector from imminent collapse.

The renewed steps by the Federal Government to bring lasting peace to the restive Niger Delta region

Since the Immediate Past Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Hon. Justice Mahmoud Muhammad, retired gracefully from the pinnacle of Nigeria’s Judiciary in November last year, the issue of who steps into his big judicial shoes has been generating some heat. To borrow the lingo of the politicians, the appointment of the next CJN has been heating up the (judicial) polity. But why this brouhaha, why the melee?

SENIOR Special Adviser to Abia State governor on Public Communication, Mr. Sam Hart and Managing Director of SLOT, Mr. Nnamdi Ezegbo, have urged Nigerian youths to use ingenuity as a solution to the various challenges affecting them.

ETAB AYIP—THE people of Etab Ayip in Kasuk II Qua Clan, Calabar Municipal Local Government Area, Cross River State, whose houses were recently bulldozed by the Ministry of Lands and Urban Development, Calabar, have alleged that officials not only carried out the action in defiance to a court order, but exhibited bias, as they left the houses of political appointees, cronies and churches untouched.

FOLLOWING dispute between Customs clearing agents and officials of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, over the figures in Pre-Arrival Assessment Report, PAAR, issued by the Customs, the Comptroller General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (retd), has directed all commands to set up a Dispute Resolution Committee (DRC).

THE Kaduna Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, KADCCIMA, has called on the government to revise the Procurement Act.