DEPUTY Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, yesterday asked the Federal Government to urgently return mission schools to their original owners.

It was a bloody Monday, yesterday, in Zaki Biam, Ukum Local Government Area of Benue State, where over 30 persons, including women and children, were reportedly killed by unknown gunmen.

Former governor of Abia State, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu has tasked judges to emulate their colleagues in the United States instead of compromising on justice.

TOTAL NigeriaPlc in partnership with the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC and state traffic authorities is currently implementing the road safety cubes campaign with the aim of educating Nigerian children within the ages of six to 12 on road safety guidelines as well as proper behaviour on the road while going to school.

OIL and Gas Trainers Association of Nigeria, OGTAN, has called on the Federal Government and the National Assembly to compel and discourage companies operating in the country from conducting trainings for their personnel outside the shores of the country.

THE Petroleum Technology Development Fund, PTDF, is planning to widen scope of stakeholders’ involvement in its activities, in a new policy direction.

Acting on the directive of the Presidency to probe why the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs approved the sack of a whistle-blower, who exposed an alleged diversion of $229,000 and N800,000 by top officials of the Directorate of Technical Cooperation in Africa, DTCA, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has begun fresh investigation into the matter.

The Federal Government said, yesterday in Abuja, that its decision to unveil a new Immigration Regulations 2017 was to prevent the influx of terrorists, killer-herdsmen and other irregular immigrants into the country.

THE Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT, Delta State chapter, has told striking teachers in the state to disregard the directive of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, asking its members to remain calm and not be intimidated.

THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Benin zone, Edo State, has issued a 14-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to pay in full, salaries and arrears allegedly owed Universities or they would down tools.

Delta State Government has been urged to implement the report of the Prof. Abednego Ikoko panel of enquiry which recommended for demarcation of the already acquired 289 hectares of land between Ogbe-Ijoh and Aladja communities in Warri South-West and Udu Local Government Areas of the state.

EXECUTIVE Secretary/Director–General, Pensioner Transitional Arrangement Directorate, Mrs. Sharon Ikeazor, has assured Nigeria Union of Pensioners, NUP, that with the computerization of pension information, issuance of identity cards and BVN biometrics as well as the Federal Government’s verification exercise, everything was being done to eliminate ghost pensioners.

Rescue workers, comprising officials of Marine Police, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA and local divers, yesterday, combed the lagoon section at the Third Mainland Bridge in search of the medical doctor, Allwell Orji, who jumped into the lagoon on Sunday.

Police, yesterday, brought a 33-year-old security man, Donald Alaribe, before an Igbosere chief magistrate’s court, Lagos, over alleged theft of items worth $20,100.

THE Itsekiri community in Edo State has described as untrue the allegation that they were laying claim to the ownership of Gelegele community in Ovia North-East Local Government Area of the state.