GOVERNOR Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has congratulated the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr Godwin Emefiele and Elder Statesman, Chief Edwin Clark on their 2016 Vanguard Personality Awards as Vanguard Man of the Year and Lifetime Achievement Awards respectively.

NATIVES of Koko, Warri North Local Government Area, Delta State, on Sunday, lashed out at the Itsekiri Environmental and Human Rights Group, IEHRG and other groups/persons over the accusation that toxic and carcinogenic waste/substances were dumped in the community, describing it as false.

Officers of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) have arrested a commercial bus driver, David Agiri for driving with a stolen vehicle with number plate FKJ 875XC at Oshodi area of the State.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr Geoffrey Onyeama requesting him to use his “leadership position to ensure and facilitate the immediate and unconditional reinstatement of whistle-blower Ntia Thompson sacked through a post on the Directorate of Technical Cooperation in Africa’s notice Board for exposing an alleged $229,000 fraud in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.”

Lagos Sate Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode at the weekend said that the proposed Bus Reform Initiative aimed at giving Lagosians an integrated public transportation system would kick start this year with a sinking fund of N30billion.

It is very much unlikely that there is an adult person, man or woman, who has never borrowed money at one time or the other. It could be from an individual such as parents, brother or sister, friends or from a lending institution.

Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, yesterday, attributed the pressures on exchange rate in the parallel market to illegal and criminal activities of some individuals.

49-year-old driver, Kazeem Adesokan, who allegedly crushed a one and a half year old with his vehicle at Tinubu Close, Palm Groove, Lagos, has been arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate Court, sitting at Ogba, Lagos, for allegedly driving in a dangerous manner, thereby causing the death of the baby

Urhobo youths under the eagis of Urhobo Youth Leaders Association, yesterday urged former Delta State Governor, Chief James Onanefe Ibori to wade into the Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, leadership crisis.

The Director General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr. Dakuku Peterside has assured the United States Coast Guard (USCG) of it determination to ensure total compliance with the International Ships and Ports Facility (ISPS) Code in all ports, terminals and jetties in Nigeria, for the security of the nation’s territorial ways