Recovering from the two-year Ezza/Ezillo communal war, Governor Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State has given all persons in possession of illegal weapons in the state 10 days to surrender them or face the wrath of the law

Justice Adebukola Banjoko of an Abuja high court sitting in Gudu, yesterday, refused to hands-off the criminal case initiated before her by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, against the former House Committee Chairman on Power, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu and his two-senate counterparts, Sen. Nicholas Yahaya Ugbane and Sen. Jibo Mohammed, describing separate applications they filed before her as lacking in merit.

NO fewer than 10 suspected kidnappers, who have been making life unbearable for citizens of Edo State since 2009 have been arrested by the State Police command.

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Mohammed Sa’ad Abubakar III, said yesterday that Nigeria needed a transparent voters’ register that is devoid of controversy

THE people of Edo State, yesterday, rejected the recommendations of the National Assembly on the proposed electoral reforms, insisting that they stand on the earlier recommendations of the Justice Muhammed Uwais Electoral Reform Committee.

DISAGREEMENT between the Senate and House of Representatives over amendment of the 1999 deepened, yesterday, as both chambers traded words over the genuineness of the document. While the House faulted the Senate for sending a wrong version of the document to state Houses of Assembly, the Senate described the House’s comments as unfortunate.