Twelve unidentified corpses were, Thursday, dumped at Ula Ukata community in Ahoada Local Government Area of Rivers State, throwing the community into confusion.

THE embattled chairman of the Edo State Task Force on Illegal Structures and Vandalisation, Major Law-rence Loye(rtd), was, yester-day, admitted to bail by a Benin Magistrate Court.

Two persons among them a graduate of Niger Delta University, Bayelsa State, were, Thursday, feared dead in a landslide, which hit the riverine community of Peremabiri in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area.

FIFTY suspected kidnappers arrested by security operatives in Imo State are expected to be paraded at the Dan Anyiam Stadium Complex, Owerri, Friday.

The Nigeria Customs, Onne Port Command, Area 11, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Thursday, foiled attempt by a Briton to smuggle a pistol and four rounds of live ammunition into the country.

Delta State Government has pledged to assist the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, in the agency’s determination to eradicate illicit drug trafficking in the country.

THE Indian workforce of troubled Delta Steel Company, DSC, Delta State, Thursday, downed tools, over hitches in payment of their salaries by the management.

Delta State Commissioner for Oil and Gas, Mr. Mofe Pirah, has appealed to stakeholders in Ugborodo community of the state to give peace a chance. He said: “Nothing can be achieved by fighting in Ugborodo community, rather aggrieved parties should sit together at a roundtable and proffer solution to the problem in Ugborodo.”

Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State has called for the restructuring of the Niger Delta Development Commi-ssion, NDDC, to attract meaningful development to the Niger Delta region.