The newly-appointed Assistant Inspector-General of Police, AIG, in-charge of Zone 3, John Morenike, has said that the police needed special funding to enable the force function effectively.

The Patriotic Alliance of Nigeria, PAN, an association of opposition political parties, yesterday said the Federal Government must not allow itself to be seen as being intimidated by the Boko Haram

Imo State Command of the State Security Service, SSS, has launched a manhunt for the traditional ruler of Lagwa autonomous community, Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area, Eze Cosmas Onyeneke, whose factory premises was used as detention camp for kidnap victims.

Senator Uche Chukwumerije representing Abia North Senatorial district, Abia State in the National Assembly said Wednesday that the aspiration of the Igbos to clinch the Presidential seat in 2015 was gradually taking a strange dimension as it was now being threatened by activities of the Boko Haram sect, which is targeting same objective.

Three commissioners in the administration of former acting governor of Plateau State, Chief Michael Botman, and a lawmaker, were, yesterday, arraigned before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, sitting in Abuja.

Civil servants in Plateau State have vowed to resume their suspended strike over the N18,000 minimum wage today unless the state government reached an agreement on the issue with labour.

THE Court of Appeal, sitting in Benin City, Edo State, has ordered the retrial of the petition of Mr. Solomon Ighrakpata of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP against Mr. Efe Otobroku of the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP by the lower tribunal handling State House of Assembly Election petition sitting in Asaba.

Owerri-based industrialist and rubber merchant, Chief Emeka Egeonu, has been gruesomely murdered by yet-to-be identified hoodlums in his Akwakuma, Owerri North local council area residence.

FOUR leaders of a faction of the Christ Apostolic Church, Worldwide including the President of the church, Pastor Elijah Olusheye were Wednesday docked at a Federal High Court in Ibadan over alleged forgery of some documents.

THREE suspected kidnappers have been arrested by the police in Ondo State for masterminding the kidnap of a foreigner; Mehmet Emin Erturk and three others including a lecturer in the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA, Dr. Tunji Akinlabi.

THE National and House of Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal in Oyo State yesterday in Ibadan, nullified the election of Mr. Rabiu Adesola, a member of the PDP in the Oyo State House of Assembly, declaring the candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, winner.

Students of the four Osun State-owned tertiary institutions Wednesday for the second time in a week took to the streets of Osogbo, the state capital, to protest the continued closure of their institutions for over two months following industrial action by lecturers and other workers of the institutions.

Nine communities in Delta State hosting the Amukpe-Escravos Pipeline Project, AEPP, have protested against their marginalisation in the award of the contract for the project.