THE Iyase (Prime Minister) of Benin Kingdom, Chief Sam Igbe, yesterday, faulted members of the Senate over their comment that the anti-corruption war of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration would fail if the Nigerian worker continued to live in abject poverty.

FROMER President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Augustine Alegeh, SAN and Arthur Obi-Okafor, SAN, have called for class actions by lawyers to check poor electricity services rendered by distribution companies among other social ills in Nigeria.

Gbaramatu Traditional Council of Chiefs, Oporoza, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently direct the payment of the N99.9 billion judgment debt against the Federal Government since 2013 awarded by the court over the unlawful military bombardment of Gbaramatu communities in 2009 by the Joint Task Force, JTF.

URHOBO Youth Leaders Association, UYLA, Delta State, yesterday, said that oil multinationals do not need any motion to relocate to the region, saying that they will adjust when the language they understand is spoken.

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State, Mr. Fred Toje, has charged young people who have attained voting age in Isokoland to turn out en-masse to participate in the ongoing voter registration exercise.

Disturbed by the rising cases of chieftaincy related disputes in its communities and the attendant security implications, Bayelsa State Government has commenced the process of identifying communities and their heads in all the eight local government areas of the state.

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar yesterday laid the foundation for the construction of the Rivers State Council of Traditional Rulers Complex.

STUDENTS of Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, FUPRE, Delta State, are among the tops in this year’s Nigeria Mathematics Competition for university under graduates, held at the National Mathematical Centre, Abuja.

SENATE President, Dr Bukola Saraki, said, yesterday, that what Nigerians called friction was normal in every democracy and denied any rift with the Presidency.

Aggrieved members of the House of Representatives, who felt shortchanged in the distribution constituency projects in 2016 Appropriation Act, yesterday, forced the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, to end plenary in 30 minutes.

Chief Albert Horsefall is the founding Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, NIA. He was also Director General of the State Security Service, SSS.

Civil Liberties Organisation, CLO, has faulted the quota system used in recruitments into the Department of State Services, DSS and the Nigeria Police, describing the quota allocated to the South- South and South-East as unacceptable.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday, said it had disbursed N33.34 billion to 146,557 farmers under the Anchor Borrowers Programme, ABP.

In 2009, the United Nations Industrial Development organisation (UNIDO) announced plans to conduct investor surveys In 22 African countries. A key goal of the survey in the case of Nigeria is to facilitate the creation of a Nigerian Industrial master plan. The programme will also evaluate the impact of policy on government efforts to promote rapid SME development. UNIDO officials in Nigeria claimed the survey would be of significant assistance to the private sector as well, helping expand operations and set performance benchmarks.

Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of an Ikeja high court was, yesterday, informed by a police Inspector, Godgift Moses, how a housekeeper, Christian Yavine, slit the throat of 79-year-old Mrs Mariam Abiola, his employer’s mother.