The nation’s drive towards self sufficiency in Sugar production will soon receive a boost as Dangote conglomerate plans to establish a $450 million Sugar refinery plant in Niger State.

Lagos State Government yesterday said it will not backtrack from earlier ban on live bands at restaurants and food joints in the state.

The Embassy of the United States of America in Nigeria has promised that it will forward Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, letter requesting official attachment and release of $500 million proceeds of alleged corruption traced to former late Head of State, General Sani Abacha.

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority ,NCAA, yesterday warned all irate and belligerent passengers that attack airline officials to desist forthwith or face criminal charges as the authority will not allow any airline official to be ridiculed publicly or endangered.

The hearing of an application seeking to set aside an arrest warrant issued against two foreigners, Deepak Khilnani and Sushil Chandra, over alleged $8.8 million fraud has been adjourned till May 23, by a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja.

Itel Mobile Nigeria, manufacturer of mobile phones as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, reached out to the students and pupils of Motherland Group of schools, Ile-Ife, Osun State.

Ado-Ekiti—The remains of the Former military governor of Old Western State, Major General Robert Adeyinka Adebayo will be laid to rest in his home town, Iyin-Ekiti, Ekiti State on May 21.

Osogbo—The family of late Senator Isiaka Adeleke, who died on April 30, 2017, yesterday has rejected the coroner’s Inquest ordered by the state government, to determine the cause of late politician’s death.

A 40-year-old discharged lance corporal, said to be kingpin of a five-man kidnapping syndicate that specialises in the abduction of women with flashy cars in Asaba and its environs, has been arrested by operatives of the Delta State Police Command.

Senate president, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki and the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris have commiserated with the families of the victims of the road accident, which claimed about 26 lives at the weekend on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.