LEADERS  of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ondo State yesterday accused the national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun of fuelling the crisis in the state.

Super Eagles forward, Odion Ighalo tops the list of Awardees to be honoured by the Edo State Football Association in its Award Nite scheduled for the Imaguero College Hall in Benin City tomorrow.

The Nigerian Bottling Company Limited (NBC) has empowered over 700 youths at the Kano edition of its program, ‘Youth Empowered’ Workshop.

Access Bank Plc’s Africa Fintech Foundry (AFF) Disrupt Conference 2017 has highlighted lack of policy and funding as major issues facing startups in the financial technology (Fintech) sector of the economy.

The Oil and Gas Free Zones Authority,  OGFZA, has signed a partnership agreement with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the global brand in management sciences, to pool resources in a strategic relationship that will see the two organisations work together to drive investments in Nigeria’s oil and gas free zones.

LAGOS—DESPITE claims by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC, that it has increased supply of premium motor spirit, PMS, also known as petrol, to Lagos and Abuja to 470 truckloads, scarcity of the product has persisted, fuelling fears it might mar Christmas, which is four days away.

Lagos Channel Management Limited has given out N1 million each to five charity homes for the less privileged in Lagos in celebration of the yuletide, totalling N5 million.

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, yesterday. said, he has approved numerous training programmes for officers in the State’s Civil Service, to enable them meet the present challenges and deliver on the fundamental comments to the people of Lagos State.

WARRI—TENSION is mounting at Kokodiagbane and other Ijaw host communities of Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, in Delta State, over the manner the multinational oil firm is handling the conversion of graduates that participated in its Vocational Training and Operator Training Programmes.

Aggah community in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State has petitioned Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC, before the Italian government over the annual flooding of their area caused by activities of the company in the country.

No fewer than nine petrol stations in Katsina State have been sealed by the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, over alleged product diversion and price hike above the legal N145 per litre pump price.

Seven suspected members of the kidnap gang that abducted and murdered the Production Manager of Niger Delta Petroleum Resources NDPR, Mr. Ubani Onyema, after collecting N10 million ransom at Woji, Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, have been arrested by the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Squad.

Kaduna State Government, yesterday, began screening of 43,806 applicants for 25,000 teaching positions in its primary schools, with M.Sc. degree holders among the applicants.

THE Osun State Government has reaffirmed its commitment to establish a Standing Tribunal into chieftaincy matters in order to ensure seamless chieftaincy matters administration in the state. 

lagos—The Aladeseso Royal family of Okegun in Ibeju Lekki Local Government Area of Lagos State, has called on the National Leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of the State, to wade into  the recommendation by the state House of Assembly Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Public Petitions, that only the reversal of the creation of Okegun-Ladeseso community in Ibeju Lekki, could guarantee peace in the area.