Lagos – An overzealous 61-year-old man, Olayinka Aina, who threw out the property of his aged father’s tenant, has landed in court, charged with stealing valuables worth N302,000.

New assessments from International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) have spelt out how livestock diseases present ‘double trouble’ in developing countries where increasing numbers of domestic livestock and more resource-intensive production methods are encouraging animal epidemics.

Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), governorship candidate in Adamawa state, Brigadier-General Mohammed Buba Marwa (rtd), has accused Adamawa state government officials of buying and burning voters’ registration cards in hundreds in the state.

Five people were confirmed killed in a fresh attack by unknown gunmen at a village in Kuru, near Jos. The attack came barely 48 hours after the warring communities signed a peace pact to end the deadly attacks.

The governorship ambition of a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Bello Masari suffered a temporary set-back yesterday as an Abuja division of the Federal High Court, issued an interim order restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from publishing his name as the standard bearer of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, in Katsina State, pending the hearing and determination of a suit challenging his candidacy.

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State has disclosed that the party would boycott today’s House of Assembly re-run election in Akoko Edo Constituency 11, of the state.

The Ekiti Police Command, yesterday, confirmed the death of three persons during a protest in Ikole-Ekiti over the location of the Federal University of Agriculture in Oye-Ekiti.

The police in Lagos said they have arrested seven suspected armed robbers, including a woman, in two robbery incidents in the Lagos metropolis.

Seven officials of the CPC yesterday appeared before a Chief Magistrate’s Court in Jos over alleged complicity in the Jan. 8 violence that left several people dead.

TENSION mounted in Warri South-West Local Governemnt Area of Delta State on Thursday when the Legistaive Arm suspended the chairman of the council, Mr George Ekpemupolo, a younger brother of ex-militant leader, Tompolo, and three councilors with immediate effect for supposed misappropriation of funds.