The controversial Octogenarian man with 86 wives and over 190 children in Bida, Niger State, has finally been dragged before a Niger State High Court sitting in Minna, by members of the Estu Masaba Ruling House in Bida in a bid to determine his membership of the ruling House.

In its effort to conserve its forest and achieve benefits derivable from it, the Federal Government has signed the Endorsement of Radiation Mission Statement on UN-REDD.

Lagos lawmaker, Mr Sikiru Adebanjo representing Epe constituency II, yesterday, attributed his defection to Labour Party to the denial of his mandate by Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, at the primaries.

Police in Lagos have arrested two brothers over the kidnap of a 12 year-old boy, in Ojokoro area of Lagos two weeks ago.

THE Benin monarch, Oba Erediauwa, has described as misleading and untrue, the reports that the Minister of State for Works, Dr Chris Ogienmwonyi, was banished from the palace due to the alleged inability of the Federal Government to fix the Benin-Lagos Road.

Few days after raising alarm over rising waves of political violence in Benue State, a federal lawmaker representing Katsina-Ala/Logo/Ukum Federal Constituency, Mr. Mzenda Iho, narrowly escaped death after a group of alleged Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, thugs attacked him and his entourage in Katsina-Ala.

As President Goodluck Jonathan begins campaign in Lagos today, Deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr Yinka Olatunji has urged Lagosians to vote for the party at the April polls, arguing that Lagos under opposition in the last 12years has been a disaster.

Henry Okah, South Africa-based Nigerian who is facing trial in a Johannesburg court for allegedly masterminding the October 1 twin bomb blast in Abuja has been moved to the maximum security prison after eight mobile phones were discovered in his cell during an unscheduled search.

THE Ibeto Group has promised to go into alliance and partnership with the University of Nigeria, UNN, Nsukka, in the area of infrastructural and human development.

The Deputy Chairman, Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology, Sentor Annie Okonkwo, has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to declare the state capital, Awka, a refuse disaster area.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ebonyi State has appointed Chief Amah Ugorji as its new Chairman.

NO fewer than 200 members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Idemili South local government area of Anambra State have decamped to the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA.

A group of farmers, under the aegis of Mallam Fatori Multi Purpose Society Union, has petitioned the Federal Government, urging government to stop the lingering crisis surrounding the construction of the proposed Kafin Zaki Dam in Bauchi State.

The lingering case between the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and former Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa and nine others, was yesterday, adjourned sine die, until judgment being reserved on an appeal filed before the Court of Appeal is delivered.