EX-AGITATORS, under the auspices of Third Phase Amnesty, have commended the National Assembly over the passage of Amnesty Bill into law, last week, which provided an institutional and legal framework for its operation.

AN Italian judge found, yesterday,  that Eni and Royal Dutch Shell were aware that their 2011 purchase of the Malabu oil block would result in corrupt payments to Nigerian politicians and officials.

THE insurance industry recorded 22 percent increase in gross premium income, year-on-year,   to N315 billion in the third quarter (Q3’18) from N258 billion recorded in the corresponding period of 2017 (Q3’17).

ABA—CHAIRMAN, Senior Staff    Association of Nigerian Polytechnics, SSANIP, Mr Chucks Nwachukwu has begged the Abia State Government to pay their salaries and not politicize it because they and their families are hungry.

YENAGOA —President of Salvation Ministries, Pastor David Ibiyeomie, has charged Ijaw youths to shun criminal activities such as cultism, kidnapping, drug abuse, pipeline vandalism and other vices.

ENUGU—Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State yesterday presented a budget proposal of N109, 199 billion for the 2019 fiscal year to the State House of Assembly for consideration and passage.

IBADAN—THE Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, yesterday, reserved judgment till today in the appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, against the orders of the Federal High Court, Abeokuta, in favour of the Engr. Adebayo Dayo-led Ogun State PDP Exco.

Oghara— Chief Medical Director, CMD,  of Delta State University Teaching Hospital, DELSUTH, Dr. Onome Ogueh, has described Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of of Delta State as a listening governor whose overwhelming support to the teaching hospital is responsible to the success story of the health institution.

Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan, has inducted Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa-Ibom State into Hall of Fame.

LAST week, the Federal Government gave what appeared as conflicting signals on the state of the economy. On Friday, December 14, 2018, President Muhammadu Buhari met with the 36 governors and confirmed what experts had feared since last year when we edged out of recession: the economy is in bad shape.