TWO persons were yesterday killed in an automobile accident at Asagba village, along the ever busy Benin- Asaba highway.

Tension yesterday flared in the densely populated Swali suburb of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, when the remain of a man allegedly pursued to death by some policemen was fished out of the river by local divers.

I HAVE passed through Owerri while connecting other cities of Nigeria. But for about 15 years, I never spent some time there. Yet, it was the same city I visited regularly to cover Iwuanyanwu Nationale in those days they bestrode Nigerian football like a colossus. It was there I saw great games.

THE Joint Task Force, JTF, on the Niger-Delta vowed, yesterday, to consume the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, should the group make good its threat to commence fresh attacks on oil installations in the Niger-Delta even as the National Assembly has appropriated a total N10.2 billion for the settlement of allowances of over 10,000 militants who have accepted the Federal Government’s amnesty.

Angry reactions have continued to trail the raging controversy over the purported extension of the tenure of the current Chairman of Imo State Council Traditional Rulers.