THE Senate, yesterday, said  it would carry out a holistic investigation into the proposed award of the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contracts  of Ajaokuta- Kaduna-Kano(AKK) Gas Pipeline, totalling $2.317 billion (N834.12 billion), to the highest bidders once it discovered that due process was breached.

The Indigenous People of Biafra – IPOB – was pronounced a “terrorist organization” and banned, first by the Chief of Army, Major-General Buratai.

A socio-political pressure group, Ika Youth Assembly, has urged old politicians to quit the stage for youths to take over the leadership of the country at all levels.

As part of the activities to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Akwa Ibom State  a four hundred million capacity a year syringe manufacturing company has been commissioned by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.

Three boxes full of poisonous snakes, spiders, millipedes and other reptiles, smuggled from Cameroon and intercepted by the Customs, have been handed to the Department of Forestry and Natural Environment Management of the University of Uyo. The Head of the Depatment, Dr Edem Eniang, a snake expert who took delivery of the reptiles, speaks on the snake business.

The influx of arms and ammunition into Nigeria from Turkey has taken a new dimension, as the Tincan Island Command of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, intercepted another 470 pump action rifles imported into the country from Turkey.

Governor Aminu Bello Masari, yesterday, said the creation of Katsina State, 30 years ago, gave it the  keys to develop or otherwise.

The Director General of Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Dr Osita Aboloma, has called on manufacturers across the country to monitor their products to ensure that they are not adulterated before they get to the final consumers.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger  has told Alex Iwobi to do more and a good finish to his product if he wants to be a ‘top class’ player.  

SOME councillorship aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Warri South West local government council, yesterday raised alarm over an alleged imposition of candidates by leaders of the party from the area under the guise of such candidates being “Governor’s candidate.”

The Founder and Spiritual Leader of Inri Evangelical and Spiritual Church, Primate Babatunde Elijah Ayodele (JP), says people should not interpret prophecies like they do in the case of poems and newspaper stories.

Over 500 youths in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State have graduated from the one month empowerment programme organized by Hon. Benjamin Sharta, councillor representing Ovwian Ward 11 in Udu Legislative Arm in collaboration with Chief Amos Itihwe Foundation.

Contrary to a recent media report, the Otota/Regent of Okere Urhobo Kingdom, Warri, Delta State, High Chief Wilson Omavowan Eboh, has stated that no person has been selected as the Orosuen (traditional ruler) of the kingdom.

The scuffle that resulted in the death of an Hausa trader along Alaba Rago International Market, Lagos Badagry Expressway, Saturday, September 16, 2017, was from a misunderstanding between some groups at Okokomaiko. So, the clash should not be blamed on the Alaba Rago market.

Brandzone, in collaboration with the Centre for Values in Leadership (CVL), is hosting a two-day National Branding Conference under the theme, “Branding: A Catalyst for Development and Growth’, in Lagos.