PRESIDENT Umaru Yar’Adua has ordered a full scale investigation into the alleged role played by the sacked Director-General of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency, NIA, Mr Enaruna Emmanuel Imohe, in the issuance of a Federal Government circular currently making the round in Nigeria’s missions abroad that no mission should entertain any inquiry from the duo of former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai and former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu.

A DELTA State High Court sitting in Warri, Tuesday, upheld the decision of the Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse 11, to appoint Mr. David Skinn as the authentic Chairman of Yonwuren and Agbeje families’ working committee and youth executive body of war-torn Ugbuwangue community in Warri South local government area.

FOLLOWING the inability of majority of 25 existing local government councils in Delta State to stay afloat, especially in meeting up with teachers’ salaries, the state government has decided to give N274 million as life line to the councils every month until the situation improves.

COMMERCIAL motorcyclists in Warri, Delta State, yesterday engaged agents of the caretaker committee of Delta State Commercial Motorcyclists in a fisticuff over alleged imposition of levies.

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has called on the National Assembly to pass the anti-trust legislation part of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) before the Federal Government goes ahead with deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum sector.