HUNDREDS of placard-carrying women, from about 10 Gbaramatu communities in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State, yesterday, laid siege to the project site of Chevron Nigeria Limited at Chanomi Creek and disrupted the laying of pipelines for the multi-billon dollars Escravos Gas to Liquid project.

Commuters plying the East-West Road, were, yesterday, stranded for over five hours as over 3,000 former militants barricaded the Mbiama section of the route in Rivers State, in protest over what they described as the refusal of the Federal Government to integrate them into amnesty programme.

For a party that emerged from nowhere to dominate the region and then tether again towards extinction, the gathering of Southwest stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP last Saturday was markedly poignant.

Thirty-one persons with fake naval uniforms have been arrested by the Nigerian Navy. This is coming as 45 suspected militants were arrested by men of the Nigerian Navy Finance and Logistics School Base, Owerrinta, Abia State.

Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State and four other eminent Nigerians will be conferred with Honorary Doctorate degrees by the Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA, on September 17 during the 22nd Convocation of the institution.

Benoit Assou-Ekotto foresees no more backlash from Tottenham fans for new striker Emmanuel Adebayor once he starts banging in the goals.

It’s been two week’s since theterror attack on the United Nation’s building in Abuja that left over 20 people dead and many more with serious injuries. During these two weeks the extremist group, Boko Haram, has been front page news.

Every new day in the on-going All Africa Games throws up challenges to the participating countries. And Nigerian officials, despite their spirited efforts at cushioning things for their athletes, are full of hisses and sighs for the organizers of the Games.

SUSPECTED armed robbers defied the tight security at Delta State Government House Complex, Asaba, when they broke into the Accounts Department. Though all the drawers were thoroughly ransacked, there was no money for them to steal.

There was pandemonium, yesterday, as factions of National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, in Isolo area engaged themselves in a fierce battle of supremacy.

BENIN CITY— FOLLOWING the killing of a popular Benin musician, Omoregbe Okpenye (Aka Bayo Ade), by suspected kidnappers and other violent crimes in the state, the Edo State Police Command, yesterday, deployed more battle ready mobile policemen to the streets of Benin. It also stationed Armoured Personnel Carriers, APC, at strategic points in the city.

LAGOS – Controller of Prisons, in charge of Planning, Research and Statistics, Prison Headquarters, Abuja, Dr Ifediorah Orakwe, yesterday, blamed the problems of the prisons in the country on corruption.

About 300 out of the estimated 500 Boko Haram members have so far been apprehended by the security agencies across the country, a Presidency source said yesterday.

LAGOS – FIVE workers of APM Terminals, who suffered various degrees of injury, have accused the management of abandoning them to die of neglect.

Those who are familiar with Arigbanla community in Agege Local Government Area of Lagos State would have noticed recent remarkable changes in this densely populated area.