Electricity workers in the North-West Zone has given a seven-day ultimatum to Governor Magatakada Wamakko of Sokoto State within which to apologise for allegedly flogging two officials of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, in his office.

A bill towards prohibiting smoking in designated places for connected purposes yesterday scaled through the first reading at the Lagos State House of Assembly.

AMAEZE community in Ishiagu in Ivo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, yesterday, said over 17 persons have so far lost their lives to uncontrolled blasting of stones with explosives within the past ten months in the area.

THE 26,358 ex-militants and beneficiaries of the Federal Government Amnesty Programme from the Niger Delta have donated relief materials worth over N52 million to flood victims in Edo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers and Cross River states.

The family of Mrs Ifeoma Anita Ojukwu, who was arrested by the Police on account of her involvement in Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has appealed to the Police authorities to release his wife.