LAFIA—A National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, member, serving in Nasarawa State, Samuel Makene was, last Thursday, stabbed to death by political thugs.

SENATE President, Senator Bukola Saraki; Speaker, House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara; presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, governors and other eminent citizens, yesterday, urged Nigerians to see Christmas celebration as an avenue to preach love and pray for a successful general election.

Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has told President Muhammadu Buhari, that the Union is no longer at ease with the country’s continued dependence on imported refined products, begging the president to do everything within his power to put an end to it.

PORT HARCOURT—Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Onne, Eleme Local Government Area, Rivers State, Jonah Chu, has been killed by unknown gunmen.

ABRAKA – URHOBO youths operating under the parallel Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, headed by Chief Joe Omene, are at daggers drawn with the authorities of Delta State University, DELSU, Abraka, over the latter’s refusal to kick out the security outfit, which  personnel were fingered in the November abduction and slaughter of a 300-level student of the university, Elozino Joshualia Ogege by suspected Yahoo boys and ritualists.

Foreign investment inflow into the Nigeria petroleum industry between January and September 2018, declined sharply by 61.6 per cent to $118.2 million, compared to $307.54 million recorded in the same period in 2017.

The return of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to the nation’s Ports and borders in May 2018 after seven years of absence and heightened readiness and alertness of the Agency’s Ports Inspection Directorate has significantly enhanced activities involving the control of importation of drugs, food, chemicals, detergents, cosmetics, and packaged water

AS Christians commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Onitsha Ecclesiatical Province and Archbishop of Onitsha Catholic Archdiocese, His Grace, Most Rev. Valerian Maduka Okeke; Governor Ugwuanyi of Enugu State and Vice Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr Peter Obi have charged Christians to always practice justice and charity in their life time.

The Petroleum Technology Development Fund, PTDF, has lamented the absence and delay in the disbursement of funds to research projects in the oil and gas industry in Nigeria.

THE Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, has harped on the positive roles of Angola, as the Secretary General, OPEC, Dr. Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, visits Luanda, Angola.

Owerri—The governorship candidate of the Young Democratic Party, YDP, in Imo State,  Myke Ikoku,  yesterday said that workers in the state deserved a better welfare package.

Rivers State Government has advised Mr. Tonye Cole, All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in the state to stop sermonising about the sale of state assets to his companies, but to dwell on the sales of public assets to companies linked to him by the previous administration.

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Mr. Mikhail Bashua, 89, has encouraged younger lawyers who wish to excel, to make honesty their watchword and cultivate a culture of integrity.

A WEEK after he became a stutterer (why we we we where where are here )at the Vice-Presidential debate in Abuja as a result of ‘running’ in Lai’s lane,VP Yemi Osinbajo was at the palace of the Alafin of Oyo last weekend to shred whatever vestige of credibility he has left for crass political opportunism.

LAGOS—THE Alhaji Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign team and the Pan-Yoruba Socio-Political Organisation, Afenifere, yesterday, picked holes in Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s advice to the South-West zone to back President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election so as to produce the next president in 2023.