Edo State governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, yesterday, outlined part of his administration’s agenda to salvage forest resources from degradation, revealing that in addition to the GPS land imaging system commissioned in Benin four months ago, a firm had also been engaged to capture another 2000 square kilometre.

CHIEF of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai, has dismissed media reports that he accused humanitarian agencies and Non-Governmental Organisations, NGOs, operating in the North East of wasting resources.

Super Eagles players have confirmed their availability for Sunday’s commemo-rative match to celebrate Lagos at 50, organisers have revealed.

Edo State governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has disclosed his intention to work with the European Union, EU, to discourage and penalise offenders caught promoting illegal migration, adding that his administration will collaborate with the EU to drive economic development.

The massive upgrade construction and installation of world class Instrument Landing Systems, ILS, going on at the Asaba International Airport, Delta State is certainly one of the enviable projects of this administration headed by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa.

ASABA—GOVERNOR Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has, in continuation of activities marking his second year anniversary, inaugurated 12 internal roads constructed by his administration at Asaba, the state capital, to ease traffic and boost economic activities in the metropolis.

Bayelsa State governor, Mr Seriake Dickson, has called on parents in the state to take advantage of the robust policies of his administration in the education sector to ensure their children obtain sound and formal education.

Kogi State Government, yesterday, said 150,000 pupils from primary one to three will, from next month, enjoy the Home Grown School Feeding programme of the Federal Government Social Investment Programmme in the state.

Following the violence that led to the death of a leader of Motorcycle Operators’ Association of Lagos State, MOALS, in Oshodi, Alhaji Rasaq Bello popularly known as Hamburger, the State Government yesterday, suspended activities of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, in all the seven branches in the area indefinitely.

The World Health Organisation, WHO, says 7 million people die of tobacco use annually even as governments lose US$1.4 trillion to healthcare expenditure due to tobacco-related diseases annually.