The Nasarawa State Emergency Management Agency said it had spent N50 million to provide relief material for 94,358 persons flood displaced persons in the state.

The Lagos State men and women basketball teams on Wednesday began their matches at the ongoing 18th National Festival on a good note by defeating their opponents, Ekiti and Taraba, respectively.

A Plateau based legal practitioner, Mr Matiyak John, on Thursday dragged the state government to the Federal High Court, Jos over the closure of schools and suspension of academic activities in primary schools in the state.

Two men, Sunday Michael and Akinyemi Olaniyi, have appeared before a Customary Court in Mararaba, Nasarawa State, charged with the production of fake drivers’ licences.

An 85-year old man, Pa Samuel Oladipupo, was nabbed by the men of Ekiti State Police Command for allegedly defiling a 12 year old girl (names withheld)

THE Senate was yesterday told that the total budget allocated to Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, in 2012 stood at N1.572 trillion.

THE national leadership of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, yesterday in Awka berated Southern governors over their continued silence on the constant killing of Christians in the North by the Boko Haran Islamist sect.

A middle age man was yesterday arrested in Ado Ekiti for an alleged attempt to bomb Government House, the official residence of the state governor,Dr. Kayode Fayemi.

THE tragedy has been on for years, but with the death of more than 400 children in March 2010, from lead poisoning, one of the consequences of illegal gold mining, the world appeared to have noticed. Outrage, promises, and little else have been the responses.

Elder statesman and one of the founding fathers of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Abu King Shuluwa in this interview spoke on nagging national issues and gave reasons why the government should negotiate with the Islamic Boko Haram group, why Nigeria could break up after 2014 even as he expressed opposition to any bid by President Jonathan to sustain his presidency beyond 2015.

The Federal Executive Council, yesterday, approved the construction of a new banquet hall in the Presidential Villa for the sum of N2.2 billion.

Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Prof, Barth Okolo, has expressed shock over the increasing number of students serving as masons at different building sites at Nsukka to pay school fees.

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, joined the National Judicial Council, NJC, to urge a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to dismiss a suit filed against the embattled President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami, by former Governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola.

Robin van Persie scored the fastest goal of the English Premier League season as Manchester United stayed a point clear at the top with a 1-0 win over West Ham at Old Trafford on Wednesday.

Heavily armed mobile policemen have been deployed in the troubled riverine town of Agbere, in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, the theatre of Tuesday’s violent youth skirmish, during which property worth millions of naira was destroyed.