GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state has assured the State’s new Commissioner on the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) of Government’s support to ensure that oil wells wrongly ceded to other states are returned to the state.

Bayelsa State House of Assembly has elected Hon Victor Sam-Ateki representing Brass I as its new Deputy Speaker.

Adams Oshiomhole (Edo), Raji Fashola (Lagos) and the former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaji Bola Tinubu, were among those who expressed their condolence during the final burial ceremony of the widow of the late elder statesman, Madam Helen Imayuse Enahoro in Benin City Friday.

Chief Sa’adu Abdullahi, an Auchi-based legal practitioner, on Friday told an Abuja High Court how he and two of his in-laws discovered the corpse of his wife, Afshatu, in her deep freezer.

STRONG indications emerged, yesterday, that the present fuel scarcity and sudden appearance of queues at the filling stations in some parts of the country may persist if the level of imports of refined petrol was not increased through the participation of major and independent oil marketers in the subsidy scheme.