CHAIRMAN, Senate Committee on Public Accounts, Senator Matthew Urhoghide has described the defection move by Senator Godswill Akpabio from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC, as a stab in the back of those who supported him to be elected as the Minority Leader in the Senate.

Stakeholders in Imo State said they were seriously befuddled over the silence of Governor Rochas Okorocha on the plan to legalise cattle ranching in the state. 

AWKA- IT is another season of New Yam festival in Igboland, with leaders of traditional institutions in the various communities spearheading the celebration in their domains. In fact, there is no other crop celebrated in Igbo land as yam such that even Igbo people in Diaspora have joined in the annual ritual.

OWERRI—INDICATIONS have emerged that former Imo State Deputy Governor, Prince Eze Madumere has again approached the state High Court, urging it to set aside the purported report, on which the State House of Assembly drew it’s strength to purportedly impeach him.

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, yesterday, said it had commenced a full scale investigation into the security breach that occurred last Friday at the Sultan Abubakar Sadiq III Airport, Sokoto, during the visit of former governor of the state, Senator Aliu Wammako, saying sanctions will be imposed on those culpable.

ENUGU—ENUGU State Government has confirmed the death of one person from lassa fever in a health facility within Enugu metropolis.

Customs Area Controller of the Federal Operations Unit, FOU Zone “A”, Garba Uba Mohammed, spoke with Vanguard Maritime Report’s Godfrey Bivbere & Ebuka Oko, on effect of smuggling, why border communities support the act, the contribution of neighbouring countries, Customs efforts and the way forward.

Nigerians opened 11.2 million bank accounts in the first half of 2018 (H1’2018) comprising 8.3 million savings accounts and 1.8 million current accounts.

OKPE—A Delta State High Court sitting in Oreropke has slammed a N3 million judgment against the state’s Commissioner of Police and three others policemen as punitive damage for assaulting and detaining an accountant, Mr. Irhirhi Edesiri, for allegedly videoing them at a checkpoint.

Uyo—CRISIS looms in Akwa Ibom State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, following perceived moves by former Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, to defect from Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

KATSINA—Federal Government is to construct about 243-kiliometre rural roads and reconstruct 375-kilometre roads for farmers in seven northern participating states under the International Fund for Agriculture Development, Climate Change Adaption and Agribusiness Support Programme, IFAD-CASP, to ease transportation of their farm produce to potential market places.

The Police in Lagos said, yesterday, that 150 suspected cultists and kidnappers were arrested in the last one year in Epe community.

PRESIDENT  Muhammadu Buhari has by now spent about a week of his ten-day medical leave in the United Kingdom. As we move closer to next year’s election and the possibility of the president winning his re-election bid (even as that looks increasingly precarious), Nigerians should look forward to the president spending more time outside the country.

THE crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress, APC,  in Delta State took a dramatic twist yesterday, as its properties  at the Isoko South Local Government Secretariat of the party were set ablaze by aggrieved party members.

MARITIME Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to direct the immediate payment of monthly pension to  seafarers  retired as a result of the liquidation of the defunct Nigerian National Shipping Line, NNSL, in line with the ruling of the Nigerian Industrial Court, NIC.