NATIONAL Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has called on Edo State Government to relocate erosion-risk community in Etsako West Local Government Area to avoid further loss of lives and property.

Minister of Power, Professor Bart Nnaji, has directed the management of the 18 companies created out of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, to start paying the workers a 50 per cent salary increase from this month.

Militants from oil producing Niger Delta on Wednesday threatened to bomb areas in the capital Abuja, scene of last year’s Independence Day bombings which killed 12 people.

The decomposing body of the 22-year-old son of a chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was found dangling under the old Makurdi Bridge, Makurdi, Benue State capital, yesterday, in what seemed like suicide.

The new Christian terror group in the North, Akhwat Akwop, which was apparently formed to checkmate the activities of the extremist Muslim Boko Haram sect has asked nationals of five Islamic countries suspected to be funding the Boko Haram to leave the country.