…regrets father’s killer not arrested yet

By Ola Ajayi

IBADAN—NINE years after the unresolved murder of the former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige, his son, Muyiwa Ige has resigned to fate, saying the killers of his father would be caught by the natural law.

Speaking at a guest forum organised by [...]

Armed men, in the early hours of Sunday, broke into the apartment of the regional correspondent of the Nation Newspapers, Mr. Kunle Johnson, in Calabar and robbed him of items worth thousands of Naira.

By Chidi Nkwopara

OWERRI—Lawyers, litigants, journalists and even staff of Imo State judiciary had a hectic day, yesterday morning, in accessing the court, as security agents took over the premises of the Imo State High Court, Owerri.

Vehicle owners were ordered to park outside the court premises, while those suspected to be loyalists of the [...]

By Kingsley Omonobi

ABUJA—Authorities of the Military Pensions Board in Abuja yesterday paraded two suspected facilitators of fake military pensioners in Abuja with one of the suspects, Miss Mary Bosede accused of trying to ‘plant’ the names of seven deceased ex-soldiers into the list of those who are alive, so that they can be paid [...]

By Innocent Anaba

ABUJA—The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Mohammed Adoke, SAN, has set a time-limit within which the Prison Decongestion Committee, which he set up about two weeks ago, must achieve the desired result of setting the prison inmates free who under normal circumstances should not have been incarcerated.

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By Vincent Ujumadu

AWKA—DEPUTY Inspector General of Police, DIG, in charge of Training at the Force Headquarters, Mr. Declan Uzoma, hinted in Awka yesterday, that police personnel in the South East States and Rivers might be pruned down if they fail to meet the challenges of combating crime in their respective states.

Addressing officers and [...]

…says he can’t lead party

By Dayo Johnson

AKURE—THE crisis within the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ondo State deepened yesterday when a concerned group announced the suspension of its party chairman, Dr Tayo Dairo, saying that he cannot lead the party to electoral victory in coming elections.

They said under him the party had [...]

TWENTY-FOUR hours after a building collapsed at Kairo Market in Oshodi, Lagos, killing no fewer than four persons; nine survivors were reportedly pulled out yesterday.

THOUSANDS of youths from the five ethnic nationalities that make up Delta State, yesterday, staged a massive protest against alleged continued harassment of the former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Onanefe Ibori.
Also, youths of Ethiope East Local Government Area of the state, protested at Eku for the same purpose.

NON-performing oil and gas industry loans in excess of one trillion naira incurred by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and petroleum products importers appears to be a stumbling block in efforts by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to steer the economy out of the woods.