Tanker drivers on Tuesday called off their four-day-old strike in Lagos after the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation paid a fine of N2.7m to the Lagos State Government on their behalf to secure the release of their impounded trucks.

LAST-minute preparations for the Ekiti State re-run governorship election were intensified yesterday by political parties and contestants in the race.

The tempo of political activities goes upbeat in Ekiti State from today (Wednesday) with the arrival of two governors elected on the platform of the Action Congress, a former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and the National Chairman of the Action Congress, Chief Bisi Akande, in the state.

BUSINESS mogul and President of Dangote Group of Companies, Alhaji Aliko Dangote and the Managing Director of Nova Finance and Securities Limited, Mr. Eugene Anenih, yesterday, appeared before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), in Abuja, over the raging African Petroleum (AP) Plc's share price manipulation scam.

The pump price of premium motor spirit otherwise called petrol could rise to about N73.37k per litre if the Federal Government and other stakeholders ratified the open market price of the product as calculated by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency.