With flood threats and resurgence of heaps of refuse across Lagos metropolis which has created an eyesore to passers-by and posing health hazard to residents, the state government weekend announced measures to tackle the menace.

MAIDUGURI—Hundreds of tricycle operators, yesterday, barricaded major streets in Maiduguri Metropolis, protesting extortion by policemen, which led to traffic gridlock around Post office, West End Roundabout and other busy areas in the capital city.

ABUJA—THE Chartered Institute of Forensic Investigative Auditors in Nigeria, CIFIA,  yesterday said the allegations of the Institute of Charted Accountants of Nigeria, ICAN, that CIFIA was a family business and amounted to proliferation of bodies, was baseless.

Abuja—THERE are  indications of fresh industrial unrest at the federal universities over the N8 billion earned allowance that recently led to the shut-down of universities for months, as the workers have threatened to resume the strike they suspended on March 8, 2018.

CALABAR—Chief Edem Duke, a former Minister of Culture and Tourism and governorship aspirant on the platform of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Cross River State, has restated his  commitment to rejuvenating the tourism sector of the state.

NEWLY elected President of Ilaje Youth Congress, IYC, Delta State chapter,  Edema Johnson, has said that Ilaje ethnic nationality, which he described as the most peaceful tribe in the Niger Delta region, was the most marginalized by government.

The Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce, NACC, has said that it is regrettable that despite  great policies, institutions and regulations which various Nigerian governments including the state governments, had put in place since independence, the task of instituting efficient, effective, affordable and sustainable housing delivery processes had remained a challenge to policymakers even as the problems of housing provision had worsened.

BENIN—The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, yesterday said it had rescued no fewer than 500 victims of human trafficking in 2018 alone, adding that  about 5,000 had been rescued by the agency since inception.

A chieftain of  All Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta State, Chief Abikelegba Odhegolor, has  accused the chairman of the party in the state, Prophet Jones Erhue, of doing “his own bidding” and ignoring the directive of the party’s National Chairman, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, to harmonize and accommodate various interest groups in the state and local government executives of the party.

Leveraging on enormous potentials in the nation’s Liquefied Natural Gas, LNG through investment has been described as the best way to boost productivity and drive economic growth.

IBADAN—THERE  appears to be a crack within the camp of the new kings installed by Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, as the Ekerin Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Abiodun Kola-Daisi has retraced his step on the recent suspension of l

ASABA—LEADERS and elders of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Ughelli clan, Sunday endorsed Olorogun Jaro Egbo as their sole candidate for the Ughelli North constituency II seat in the Delta State House of Assembly ahead of the 2019 election.

INTERMITTENT interventions by the Federal Government, the Lagos State government and some private stakeholders have always provided a ray of hope for an end to the lingering traffic gridlock in Apapa and environs. Unfortunately such interventions only bring short term solutions, thus failing to achieve the much-desired long term objective. But this has not stopped those concerned from continuing to make promises on how to contain the problem.

Majority of the global population now living in cities and their numbers growing daily, which have made cities inclusive, sustainable, resilient and safe as currently observed, is critical to achieving the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals SDGs, a high level UN meeting has noted.

WITH gas supply, distribution and transmission challenges affecting on-grid power sector, indications have emerged that 13 states’ access to electricity is still below 40 per cent.