Lagos State Government, yesterday, said the state will require over 540 million gallons of water daily to address the water shortage in the state.

AGBAZILO and Okpebho are two components of Esan People in Edo Central Senatorial Zone of Edo State. The late Professor Ambrose Folorunsho Ali and Professor Oserheimen Aigberaodion Osunbor belong to the Okpebho extraction, while the great statesman, the late Anthony Enahoro and the living legend of Nigerian politics, Chief Anthony Anenih, are of the Agbazilo extraction.

The Minister of Police Affairs, retired Navy Capt. Caleb Olubolade, says the Boko Haram sect has so far carried out 118 attacks in six northern states and the FCT, killing 308 people.

Enugu – Unknown gunmen have abducted a six-year old girl, Miss Kosisochukwu Akilo, from her family house in Enugu. The mother of the girl, Mrs Ebele Akilo, told the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Enugu yesterday that the gunmen broke into their house in the early hours of Sunday.

Nigeria’s inflation rate rose to 12.9 per cent in April, year-on-year, driven largely by non-food items and a very price stable comparative month in April last year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed, yesterday.