National President, Association of Table Water Producers of Nigeria, ATWAP, Dame Clementina Chinwe Ativie, has called on Nigerians not to patronise package water not registered by National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC

ABUJA: Youths from 19 northern states under the aegis of Oil & Solid Mineral Producing Area Landlords’ Association of Nigeria, OMPALAN, yesterday, condemned the quit notice by a coalition of northern youths to citizens of Igbo extraction living in the northern part of Nigeria.

MAKURDI—Benue State Police Command has busted two kidnap syndicate of eight in Makurdi and Katsina-Ala including a gang of four allegedly led by a woman believed to be an associate of the wanted militant leader, Terwase Agwaza, also known as Gana, who a week ago abducted a Katsina/Ala-based businessman.

The Nigeria Union in South Africa on Wednesday accused two communities in the country of asking Nigerians to quit their territories.

ABUJA — THE Senate has begun a probe into the protracted blackout in the country, especially in the North. It also mandated its Committees on Power, Steel Development & Metallurgy and Gas to urgently investigate what it described as an anomaly and report back immediately.

ILORIN—NO fewer than 30 professors at the University of Ilorin, UNILORIN, have signified interest to contest for the office of Vice Chancellor of the institution.

CALABAR—CROSS River State House of Assembly Committee investigating allegations of diversion of relief materials is to summon Senator Florence Ita-Giwa and other Bakassi leaders to give details of how materials supplied to the Internally Displaced Persons, IDP, in Bakassi were distributed.

‘Behind the Wheels’, a new film that is poised to unravel the pros and cons of being a tanker driver, giving a deeper insight into their everyday life is set to premiere at Silverbird Galleria on June 16. It is a documentary story about tanker drivers shot in different locations in the country. The idea is inspired by how they are related to by people, ranging from meager salary to bad treatment by their employers despite the nature of their job as conveyors of inflammable substances.

Lovers of water sports had a swell day amidst fun and glamour as Detail Commercial Solicitors (DETAIL), an enterprising Lagos law firm held the maiden edition of ‘DETAIL Pursuit Race’; sailing competition Saturday June 10, 2017 at the Lagos Yacht Club, Onikan, Lagos.

LAGOS—Shocking revelations emerged, yesterday, as the dreaded kidnap kingpin, Chukwudubem Onwuamadike a.k.a Evans, narrated to police detectives how he was abducted in 2015 by another gang of kidnappers operating in the eastern part of the country.

Osinbajo is a Class Act who also has a Common Touch; he is an elitist…and a populist when it is necessary to come down to earth and sincerely empathise with ordinary folks

Doubtlessly, the NATO powers that sunk Libya would not want to see the country refloat under Saif; but if faced with a choice between him and the Islamic State, they may prefer the former

ABUJA — The Federal Government, yesterday, ruled out total deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry.

THE Senate said, yesterday, it would not concede its constitutional powers to the executive arm of government.