Rivers Peoples Con-gress, RPC, has called on the opposition candidates in the April governorship election in Akwa Ibom State to drop their cases against Governor Godswill Akpabio in the election tribunal and join hands to move the state forward.

Tragedy struck yesterday as thunderstorms swept through Gombe, Yobe and Bauchi states killing 19 persons. Among the dead were eight men, six women and five children

GOVERNOR Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State yesterday denied media reports that he nominated a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to President Goodluck Jonathan for consideration as minister even as he pleaded that he be left out of issues pertaining to the PDP.

Fifa’s security chief is trying to locate Nigerien referee Ibrahim Chaibou, who officiated a friendly international that is being investigated for match-fixing claims.

A Federal High Court sitting in Benin, Edo State, has awarded the sum of N10million to one Lucky Etomokwu, a physically challenged, as general damages for his unlawful arrest and detention by the Edo State Command of the State Security Services, SSS.

A socio-political group, Ndokwa Youths National Movement, NYNM, has condemned the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Oil Pipeline Surveillance plans, which is coordinated by the Delta State Government, saying that out of the 6,000 slots of surveillance jobs given out by the Federal Government to the state government as youth empowerment programme for pipelines host communities, none was given to the Ndokwa nation.

New Chelsea coach, Andre Villas-Boas yesterday unveiled his back room staff. And there was no room for former Nigerian international Michael Emenalo.

TRAGEDY struck, yesterday, in Nyanya, a suburb of Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, FCT, following the collapse of a two-storey building under construction at the back of a new generation bank.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Onyeabor Azubuike Ihejirika, Wednesday, gave the strongest condemnation yet, of the murderous activities of the Boko Haram sect saying ‘For us, the issue is that people are being killed and people are committing crime for no just cause. If they are not cowards, why don’t they come out and operate in the open”.

ROME (AFP) – Udinese are close to reaching an agreement with Barcelona over the sale of the Italian club’s Chilean forward Alexis Sanchez, according to Gino Pozzo, the son of Udinese owner Giampaolo Pozzo.

GOVERNOR Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State Wednesday vowed not to rest until all the assets illegally mortgaged by the Governor Olugbenga Daniel administration were recovered just as he warned that prominent elders in the state who connived in the illegal disposition of the assets would be made to pay for their misdeeds.

Four Nigerian secondary schools will be representing the country in the forthcoming International Science fair slated for Brazil and Slovakia in October.

The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), on Tuesday demanded N500 billion as compensation for the families of its members killed during the post election crisis in the state.

Many people were feared dead as a building collapsed at Mararaba, a boundary town between Abuja, the federal capital territory and Nasarawa state.

The UNICEF says an estimated 33 million Nigerians still practice open defecation in different parts of the country