PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, in Abuja called on African leaders to support processes that will ensure stronger political institutions across the continent.

THE Federal Government has set January 23 deadline to transmit the N30,000 new minimum wage recommended by Tripartite Committee to the National Assembly.

 AS the $44.861million (N16.150 billion) Warri Channel dredging contract nears completion, controversy is currently trailing the project’s contract award.

GOVERNOR David Umahi of Ebonyi State, weekend took various communities and local government areas of the state unawares as his entourage, accompanied by engineers, stopped intermittently in Ebonyi South and North zones of the state to herald the commencement of the construction of road and three bridges, even as he inspected the construction of a new flyover in the hinterland.

Information Minister, Lai Mohammed, yesterday asked the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to leave President Muhammadu Buhari and his family alone and focus their attention on how to salvage their campaigns, which he said was at the verge of collapse.

ASABA—DELTA State Chairman of All Grand Alliance Party, AGAP, Prince Alex Oyoro, has challenged the governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state, Chief Great Ogboru, to a live debate, insisting that Deltans want to know what their next governor has to offer them to enable them make an informed decision.

Various items estimated at N5 million were  distributed to over 2,000 widows and less-privileged ones by a Non- Governmental Organisation, NGO, Ebuka Okafor Foundation, EOF, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR and empowerment programmes.

THE dredging of Warri port channel awarded at the cost of $44.861million (N16.150 billion) by the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA has been completed.

Late highlife music legend, Chief Oliver Akanite alias Oliver De Coque, once reminded music lovers that “making money is one thing, and having the love to share your earnings with people, is a different ball game.”

THE Nigerian Association of Master Mariners, NAMM, has called on the management of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, to carry out an audit exercise on the academic staff of the Maritime Academy of Nigeria, Oron.

THE late National Organizing Secretary of All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Mike Kwentoh, who died on December 29, 2018 is to be buried February 7, 2019 in his home town, Onitsha.

THE Federal Operations Unit, F.O.U, Zone ‘A’ of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS has said that  it realized a total of N5.1billion from prohibited items  seized by the Unit in the last four months.

The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Federal Operations Unit, Zone C, Owerri has generated a total of N591million as Duty Paid Value on 22 seized vehicles, including eight bullet proof exotic cars and 1901 bags of contraband rice.

The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS weekend said it has collected a total of N1.2 trillion as at December 2018, even as it disclosed that contraband consignments with Duty Paid Value, DPV, of N61.5 billion were also seized during the period under review.

MANAGEMENT of Five Star Terminals, operators of terminal D at the Tin-can Island port, is to acquire additional cargo handling equipment to ease operations at the terminal in the New Year.