ONE person died and 18 others injured when an articulated vehicle crushed a commercial bus and two private cars on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, yesterday.

An exhibition for leading construction and mining organisations to showcase their products and services to over 2000 foreign and local investors, tagged ConMin West Africa, will hold at the International Conference Centre, Abuja from June 13 to 15 2017.

Three years after his death, Justice Chukwudifu Oputa, fondly referred to as ‘The Socrates of Supreme Court,’ resurrected at the 2nd edition of a professional training and mentoring programme for young lawyers, held in his honour, in Abuja.

THE Senate, yesterday, moved to check alleged financial recklessness on the part of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, on intervention fund spending every year.

Managing Director, Port Harcourt Refining Company Limited, PHRC, Mr Shehu Malami, has enjoined host communities of the company to always explore peaceful negotiation in resolving differences with the firm.

WORRIED by the abandonment of Bodo/Bonny Road which links the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG in Bonny, Rivers State, in the last 15 years, the Senate, yesterday, mandated its Committee on Works to summon the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, to explain the rationale behind the non- completion of the road.

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.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Mr Lai Mohammed has said that the issue of groups issuing threat of quit notice did not start today and that the Federal Government and security organisations are very much on top of this matter

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu has dissolved all oil-related committees in Ilaje and Ese-Odo Local Government Areas of the state.

THE Nigerian-Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, NVCCI, is to partner with Vietnam investors to promote export of made-in-Nigeria products.

DELTA State governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, yesterday, said that his administration will continue to build infrastructure in all parts of the state as part of efforts towards boosting the socio-economic lives of Deltans.

Amid wailing and tears, fear stricken parents of kidnapped students of the Lagos State Model College, Igbonla, Epe, yesterday, besieged the office of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to express their concern over the prolonged delay in the rescue of their children from the kidnappers’ den, 14 days after they were abducted. They demanded for their immediate rescue.

the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, will partner relevant agencies and professional bodies to prevent inciting comments and hate speeches in the build up to 2019 polls.

The new Unit Commander of Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Apapa, Assistant Corps Commander Abulrahman Bima, has charged motorists to be of good conduct on the highways.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos yesterday denied a motion by a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, to suspend his trial over alleged fraud pending the determination of his request for the case to be transferred to Abuja.