Chief Executive Officer, 9mobile, Boye Olusanya, yesterday, dismissed continued insinuations that the exit of the company’s foreign partners Etisalat and Mubadala of UAE may affect its operations, saying the company was not even dependent on them.

APC governorship aspirant, Chief Barth Nwibe has urged the party leadership to fence out all aspirants associated with corruption from the governorship primaries.

FOR failing to honour the invitation on alleged complicity in N30 trillion revenue leakage in the nation’s ports, the Senate, yesterday, threatened to issue a warrant of arrest on Chief Executive Officers of no fewer than 30 firms allegedly involved in the processes, if they failed to appear before its joint Committee on Customs and Marine Transport today.

President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, has assured Nigerians that the current efforts at amending the 1999 Constitution will not be in futility.

A Nigerian, one Mr. Sylvanus Amachukwu Godwin, yesterday, slumped and died aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight 606 en-route Addis Ababa to Guangzhou, China.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, said the West African Gas Pipeline, WAGP, would be extended from Ghana to Cote d’Ivoire.

THE Federal Government, yesterday, approved N39.17 billion for the supply of electricity meters to the Electricity Generation Companies, GENCOs.

The Chief Joe Omene leadership of the Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, the Urhobo apex ruling socio-cultural body, at home and in diaspora, has said that it remains the authentic leader of the body and not Chief Moses Taiga, who is being erroneously addressed as President-General of UPU worldwide.

United Progressive Party, UPP aspirant Chief Osita Chidoka, has vowed to project his party’s policy of restoring the voice of Ndigbo in the Nigerian polity and at the same time modernise governance in Anambra State.

Former member of Delta State House of Assembly, Mr Abel Oshevire, has threatened to drag All Progressives Congress, APC, to court should the party leadership include his name in their membership list again.

Speaker of Plateau State House of Assembly, Mr. Peter Azi, has called on the Federal Government to consider the signing of the Peace Corps Bill into law as soon as possible.

THE 18 local government areas in Edo State have received N2.95 billion for the month of July as against the N2.18 billion disbursed in the month of June from the Federation Account.

The Director-General of National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, Ms. Julie Okah-Donli, has appealed to the Federal Government and corporate bodies to assist in funding the agency.

Activities still continued at Novotel Hotel on Stadium Road, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, four days after Governor Nyesom Wike announced that the Certificate of Occupancy, C of O, of the place will be revoked.

The Nigerian Society of Engineers, NSE, Asaba, branch has sought partnership with the Delta State Government towards mitigating the ugly challenge of flooding in Asaba, the Delta State Capital.