A 62-year mother of six simply identified as Felicia Agbonyima weekend, was alleged to have been strangled to death and dumped in a dry well measuring over 15 kilometers by unknown persons on Sunday at Ahor community, near Benin in Uhunmwonde Local Government area of Edo State.

South Africa has condemned the suicide attack on the UN building in Abuja, which killed several people.

The management of Mainstreet Bank and Enterprise Bank, two of the banks which licences were recently revoked by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), have reassured their workers of job security.

Investigators probed a Nigerian Islamist sect on Monday over the suicide bombing of UN headquarters here that killed at least 21 people in one of the bloodiest attacks targeting the world body globally.

Ogun State Government has flayed the deteriorating state of Obafemi Awolowo College of Health Sciences, Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, Sagamu, describing it as ‘unimaginable”.

As part of measures to ensure sanity on the highways during this year’s Eid-el-Fitri, Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, yesterday commenced a nationwide special patrol, to curb the spate of avoidable road crashes usually associated with surge of human and vehicular traffic across the country.

WIDOWS of retired workers of Nigerian Railway Corporation, Eastern District, have appealed to wife of the President, Dame Patience Jonathan, to intervene and stop the harassment and maltreatment they are being subjected to by officials of the corporation.

Management of Bi-Courtney Highway Services Limited has assured that palliative work on Lagos-Ibadan expressway would be completed before the Muslim holidays to facilitate easy transportation during the period.

Sequel to a recommendation by the National Judicial Council, NJC, to President Goodluck Jonathan, he will today confirm Justice Dahiru Musdapher as the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, even as the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, kicked against his appointment.

TRAGEDY struck in Benin City, yesterday, when armed men, suspected to be kidnappers, abducted the Chairman/Managing Director of Tomline Industrial Company Limited and a chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Elder Tes Sorae, after his driver and orderly were shot dead.

Some shareholders of Afribank Plc have asked a Federal High Court, Lagos, to set aside the revocation of their bank’s licence in its entirety by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.

DISASTER struck late Saturday night in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital when some armed hoodlums suspected to be hired killers stormed the residence of an Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, chieftain and state Vehicle Inspection Officer, VIO, Chief Yomi Bamgbose and shot him to death.