Thirteen years after it came into being as an interventionist agency to help tackle challenges of under development in the Niger Delta region, the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC is yet to meet this set goal.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, adjourned till January 30, for trial of Rosemary Usifo, a former branch Manager, First City Monument Bank Plc, FCMB, charged with N30 million fraud.

RIVERS State Police Command, yesterday, said preliminary investigation showed that Leader of the state House of Assembly, Mr. Chidi Lloyd, who was arrested recently for alleged killing of Police Sergeant Urang Obediah and one Kingsley Ejue, on December 30, last year, drove the vehicle that reportedly killed the two men.

Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State has said that his government’s reforms in the education sector manifested in the results of the 2013 Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations where 50.10 per cent of the candidates from the state passed with a minimum of five credits, including English and Mathematics.

Iduwini Development Foundation is made up communities in Iduwini Kingdom on the Atlantic fringe in Ekeremor council area of Bayelsa State and in Delta State.