CHIEF Learning Officer, Christfield Private Schools, Ikorodu, Mrs. Olabisi Olateru, has stressed the need for schools to train prefects on leadership role, adding that many of these prefects may eventually end up as leaders in the country.

The Global Amnesty Watch (GAW) has exonerated the Nigerian government from the alleged use of child soldiers in the counter-insurgency war in the northeaster part of Nigeria.

Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode has identified the need for residents to adopt a wilful approach to the payment of taxes as a means of addressing fundamental challenges confronting the State and accelerating development in all sectors and sections, lamenting that only 600,000 residents pay tax in the state.

WARRI— IMME-DIATE past governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, will chair the unveiling of the design of a N30 million permanent secretariat complex to be built by the National Association of Itsekiri Graduates, NAIG.

lagos—Residents of Festac town in Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State have decried the two weeks’ power outage in the area, stressing that the outage was causing untold hardship on the people.

ABUJA— THE Senate, yesterday, gave a week’s ultimatum to Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC; Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN; Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS; Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA; Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, and 32 other federal agencies, to submit their 2017 budget proposals to the National Assembly for appropriation.

ikorodu—A total of 131 suspected members of dreaded badoo boys and cultists were yesterday , arrested in Ikorodu area of Lagos ,by a joint security task force, in continuation of the clampdown on criminals who have snuffed life out of several families in the area.

In line with its vision to bring succour to the less-privileged, Mavrodi Mondial Movement MMM, in conjunction with an NGO, International Centre for Vision and Health Care ICVHC, has taken its humanitarian service to the people of Ngwa Road, Azikiwe community in Aba, Abia State where it treated patients with eye problems and distributed corrective glasses and drugs to over 348 patients.

APC chairmanship candidate, in Ikotun Igando, Local Council Development Area, LCDA, Morenike Adeshina Williams has expressed her desire to deliver dividends of democracy to the teeming populace through their support and cooperation if elected into office in the July 22 local government election, as she cannot do it alone.

lagos—World Bank has expressed its readiness to partner with Lagos Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, in executing projects that would lead to cleaner and healthier environment in the state.

ABA—Association of South-East Town Unions, ASETU, has said that any group opposed to the restructuring of Nigeria does not mean well for Nigeria.

IN line with its corporate strategy for changing the way we live, work, learn and play through innovation, Cisco hosted the first edition of its Internet of Things (IoT) Hackathon in Lagos. The IoT Hackathon is a competition that invites creative and innovative students to develop innovative solutions to Nigerian challenges while receiving educational guidance and training.

A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain and Delta State governorship aspirant in 2007 general elections, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has said that the Supreme Court confirmation of Ahmed Markafi’s PDP faction as the authentic leader of the party signifies the death of All Progressives Congress, APC, as the ruling party in Nigeria.

BENIN—GOVERNOR Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has assigned the 18 appointed commissioners to various ministries in the state, just as he announced the scrapping of the Ministry of Lands.

ABUJA—Petroleum Technology Development Fund, PTDF, has screened candidates who had earlier applied for the fund’s scholarship programme nationwide.