An Edo State High Court sitting in Benin City has granted an order of Mandamus compelling the Edo State Police Command to locate and arrest a traditional ruler (name withheld) who is a judgment/debtor/contemnor in a case between him and a retired Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mr. John Asemota and commit him to prison as earlier ordered by the court.

GOVERNOR Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has sent a list of commissioner nominees to Edo State House of Assembly for confirmation.

Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited, SPDC, has concluded plans to develop a new gas project in the Niger Delta.

AS part of efforts to industralise Bayelsa State and make it a hub for economic activities, Governor Seriake Dickson has inaugurated a committee for the utilization and non-utilization of gas resources.

HUNDREDS of protesting contractors of Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC, were stopped by soldiers from marching on the oil giant in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, yesterday to register their grievances.

Itsekiri Leaders of Thought, ILoT, has insisted that the disputed Ogbe-Ijoh Market in Warri, Delta State, belongs to the Itsekiti, as it called on the state government to hand over the market to Warri South Local Government Area of the state.

The Board of AMI has elected, Mr. Wale Aboderin as the new Chair of the organisation.

The Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project, HYPREP, yesterday, commenced sensitization of residents of Ogoni, Rivers State, on its activities, in view of the commencement of the remediation of the area about to start soon.

Benue State government has warned that the threat by the herdsmen’s socio-cultural organisation, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, to forcefully take over part of the state for cattle grazing in defiance of the state’s anti-open grazing law, is an invitation to anarchy in the North Central geo-political zone of the country.

Attempt by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to restrain the Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, from operating his accounts in Zenith Bank Plc, hit the rock, as the Appeal Court sitting in Ado Ekiti yesterday, dismissed the anti-graft agency’s application .