THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, in Anambra State says it arested 280 suspects for various drug related offences between January and December last year.

THE camp of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party PDP in Ondo State was depleted weekend as the immediate past Commissioner for Special Duties under Dr Olusegun Agagu’s administration in the State, Chief Boye Adegbemisoye defected with his supporters to the ruling Labour Party (LP) in the state.

THE foundation stone of the N3.5Billion Benin Cultural Heritage Complex is expected to be performed by the Benin Monarch, Omo N’ Oba Erediauwa on Thursday.

Barely 48 hours after a bomb explosion rocked a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rally in Suleja, Niger State, leaving about 10 persons dead and 28 others injured, security agencies, yesterday, seemed close to unravelling the mystery surrounding the incident.

PRESIDENTIAL candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, Major General Muhamadu Buhari(rtd), has blamed what he termed misrule of the political leadership provided by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party for the challenges of insecurity, decay in infrastructure and education facing the nation.

Less than three months to the end of the present administration, it has emerged that a powerful cabal in the nation’s oil and gas sector has commenced a move to stop the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, into law.

THE police in Netherlands are still holding Niger-Delta activist, Sunny Ofehe, incommunicado 12 days after he was seized from his Rotterdam home for an undisclosed offence.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has threatened to revoke the sale of Edo Cement Factory, Okpella, to private investors by past administrations if the factory did not bounce back to production in the next two weeks.

As 20,000 volunteers in the Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme (OYES) graduated, yesterday, the state governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has charged them to prove critics of the scheme wrong by exhibiting the virtues of the training they received by becoming better citizens in their respective local government areas.

PEOPLE of Idheze community, Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta State, yesterday, restated their commitment to the 72- hour ultimatum it issued on the Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC), to comply with the Mamoradum of Understanding, MOU, it entered with the community from 2008-2011 or close down its facilities in the land.