ABUJA—Eleven years after it was awarded, the Federal Government, said, yesterday, that there is no definite deadline for the completion of the East-West Road dualization project.

Rivers State governor, Mr Nyesom Wike, has flagged off the construction of shore protection works in five communities in Ndoni District of Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of the state.

Uyo—GOV-ERNOR Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State has distanced himself from the proposed withdrawal of $1 billion from the Excess Crude Account, ECA, by the Federal Government to tackle insurgency in the North East.

ILORIN—The Kwara State House of Assembly, yesterday, passed the 2018 budget of the state totalling N190,997,425,571.

Jos—Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State has presented the 2018 budget estimate of N145, 488,066,352 billion to the state’s House of Assembly, with a promise to continually accord priority to the welfare of civil servants through timely promotions and payments of salaries and allowances.

The APC in Aniocha South have urged members not take the law into their hands in the face of what it described as provocations by the PDP over alleged denial  of campaign venues.

UGHELLI—AN Ughelli based businessman, Olorogun Johnny Esike, has accused men of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, stationed at the Ekiadolor axis of Benin-Ore express road of allegedly impounding a gas tank he imported into the country and allegedly demanding N.5 million for the release of the tank.

YENAGOA—BAYELSA State Government, said, yesterday, that it had  received N12.447 billion as its share of the last tranche of the  London-Paris Club refund.

ABUJA—THE Managing Director of Niger Delta Power Holding Company, Mr. Chiedo Ugbo, said yesterday that the Federal Government and preferred bidders had opened negotiation for payment arrangement of N711 billion ($1.975bn) for three power plants.

EVERYTHING possible must be done to avoid bringing politics into #ENDSARS, the campaign by some social activists to have the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, of the Nigeria Police scrapped. The campaign, which took off in the social media made a worrisome landfall in the streets of some cities such as Abuja, Awka in Anambra, and Port Harcourt in Rivers State at the beginning of last week.

A family of three, comprising father, mother and child were, at the early hours of yesterday, murdered by assailants suspected to be members of the badoo cult group in Ibeshe Ikorodu area of Lagos.

Decades ago there was a column, PARALLAX SNAPS which you had to read to have a truly complete and fulfilled week; Dele Giwa who died of a parcel bomb was host of that column.

The Edo State Government is set to embark on a state-wide tracking of members of the human trafficking cartels in the state including religious leaders and other individuals aiding the illegal trade.

A former Delta State Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Love Ojakovo, has said doing business in Nigeria is far easier than being a politician, revealing that he was invited for questioning by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, 109 times, until the commission’s then Chairman, Mrs Farida Waziri, said “Don’t bring this man here again; he is clean.”