The Governors’ forum noted the Reforms in the Petroleum Sector especially the Petroleum Industry Bill currently under consideration by the National Assembly.

Chief Akeredolu, who spoke at the launch of ‘Easy Law: Digital Rules of Court’ at the Institute of Advance Legal Studies, University of Lagos, said that the trend in the legal profession today dictates that all the rules are better unified, so that legal practitioners in the country will use one rule, instead of the different rules presently in operation in all the states of the federation.

Igwe, the House of Representatives Committee chairman on Rural Development,who was among those previously detained with Ndudi Elumelu over the N5.2m rural electrification scam may be flown abroad according to a family source who confirmed that Igwe was rushed to the Intensive Care Unit of a Neurosurgery hospital in Enugu shortly after the attack last week Thursday where he underwent the surgery and has been receiving treatment.

Nine directors of the commission charged with Dr Olagunju for alleged complicity were also sent to prison.
That was after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned them yesterday for conspiring with one another to perpetrate fraud involving N278million in the commission.

Onovo promised that he would continue from where his predecessor, Okiro stopped, pointing out that “we will ensure we have a stable and secure society with crime brought down to the barest minimum by initiating new crime fighting strategies and employing our greatest assets, manpower through well motivated measures.”