The aged parents of co-pilot Navy Lt. David Adeyemi Sowole, who also died in last Saturday’s chopper crash in Bayelsa State, yesterday refused to comment on the Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Admiral Ola Sa’ad Ibrahim’s assertion that the Defence Headquarters had rendered the necessary assistance to the family.

Fair skinned Nollywood actress Nkiru Sylvanus and former Mr Nigeria winner Kenneth Okolie who were kidnapped, Monday, in Owerri have been released, Thursday night, by their captors.

Tears flowed freely, yesterday, amid eulogies as President Goodluck Jonathan led dignitaries to pay their last respects at the burial of former Governor of Kaduna State, Patrick Yakowa at his country home in Fadan Kagoma.

Yakowa died on Saturday, December. 15, in a helicopter crash at Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa alongside five others, including former National Security Adviser, Gen. Andrew Azazi.

A HUMAN rights activist and legal practitioner based in Onitsha, Anambra State, Mr. Jezie Ekejiuba, has dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and Attorney General of Federation, AGF, to the Federal High Court, Awka, challenging the recent de-registration of 28 political parties in the country.

Civil Society Aviation Coalition, CSAC, yesterday carpeted the House of Representatives over its declaration that Director-General of Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, Dr. Harold Demuren, be sacked due to the role he allegedly played in the processes that led to the crash of Dana Air plane at Iju Ishaga in Lagos.