CHAIRMEN of Gbaramatu Communities in Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, yesterday, appealed to their neighbouring Itsekiri ethnic group to embrace peace and work towards the successful take-off of the Nigerian Maritime University, NMU, Okerenkoko, in October.

One Joel of Enugu State is currently undergoing interrogation in the hands of detectives from Enugu State Police Command as to what led to the death of a lady identified as Ifeyinwa after they both checked into a hotel room in Enugu.

The Nigerian Army yesterday, described as untrue report that it was shielding some of its soldiers that were accused to have allegedly vandalised N63 million cable belonging to a telecommunication firm.

The Muhamma-du Indimi Foundation has distributed food items and cash worth N100 million to 28,000 victims in several IDPs camps in Maiduguri, Borno State capital.

Ohordua community in Edo State has cried out to the state government over the abandonment and the dilapidating infrastructure at the only secondary school serving the community and others around it.

NO doubt, the traditional hundred days in office of Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, as the sixth governor of Ondo State since the creation of the state in 1976 was used to lay foundation for the development of the state with the hope of delivering the dividend of democracy to the people who gave him the mandate in no distant future. Akeredolu was sworn in on February 24, making Friday, June 2, his 100th day in office.

THE Federal Government, yesterday, told the international community in Geneva, Switzerland, that Nigeria’s recurring national budget deficit caused by the volatility in the global oil market and insurgency, especially in the North-East, had compounded its efforts at generating sustainable income, employment opportunities, poverty eradication and promotion of better livelihood for the citizenry.

ABUJA— The Federal Government said, yesterday, it has neither sold nor approved concession of the nation’s refineries to any individual or company.

Addressing newsmen in Abuja, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu, also disclosed that it would cost the country about $1.2 billion to fix the three refineries.

FORD Motor Company, in conjunction with its distributor, Coscharis Motors, has brought back its Driving Skills for Life (DSFL) programme to Nigeria.

THE dwindling sales of automobiles in Nigeria has continued to drive companies’ operations further into stalemate making their manufacturing plants a ghost of themselves as a result of underutilization. This has placed investors on the brink of exiting the country or changing their business portfolio in recent times.

What is left to complete the government’s humiliation is a ceremony for the government to convey its profound apologies to the judges for the inconveniences they may have suffered in the last eight months

ABA—The Court of Appeal, Owerri Division, has fixed June 15 to hear an appeal, CA/OW/190/ 2016, filed by Sir Friday Nwosu against the July 8, 2016 judgment of the Federal High Court, Owerri which cleared Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of alleged submission of false information and forged tax documents.

ABA—The Court of Appeal, Owerri Division, has fixed June 15 to hear an appeal, CA/OW/190/ 2016, filed by Sir Friday Nwosu against the July 8, 2016 judgment of the Federal High Court, Owerri which cleared Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of alleged submission of false information and forged tax documents.

ABUJA—THE Senate has summoned the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele to appear before it next Tuesday over alleged N30 trillion import duties infractions.

SHAREHOLDERS of Lafarge Africa Plc have urged the company to ensure that there is diversity and enough geographical spread in the proposed board restructuring, even as they approved the plan by the company to raise N140 billion through Rights Issue.