Scores of youths and aged women, yesterday blocked the ever busy Owerri-Umuahia federal highway at Nkwogwu, Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area to protest the gruesome murder of their son and medical practitioner, Dr. Nonye Nwaise.

Unidentified gunmen, at the early hours of yesterday, shot an octogenarian white cap chief dead, in his apartment on Iga Iduganran Street, Isale-Eko, Lagos.

Nigeria striker Emmanuel Emenike’s injury is not serious, while a scan will be carried out for Victor Moses, officials have disclosed.

Chieftains of the new opposition Mega party, All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd), and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday, lamented that the government was concerned about its survival and was spending too much money on security at the expense of education.

The feud between Fulani herdsmen and Eggon farmers in Nasarawa State hightened yesterday as fresh fighting erupted in Randa Village, near Kwandere, causing tension in Lafia, the state capital. At the time of filing this report, no fewer than 30 people were said to have been killed with several others wounded.

A 19 year-old boy, Ayomide Omope, with history of autistic behaviour who was declared missing last week has been found.

The unveiling of the APC as the special purpose vehicle with which the country’s major opposition parties hope to contest the political space with the dominant Peoples Democratic Party, will redefine the political landscape.

Bayelsa State Government, yesterday, said the mass demolition of houses in Yenagoa, the state capital, and its environs was to plan the city in line with the Yenagoa Master Plan.

The Secretary carries out the President’s foreign policies through the State Department and the Foreign Service of the United States. Clinton took the oath of office of Secretary of State and resigned from the Senate that same day. She became the first former First Lady to serve in the United States Cabinet. She also became the first Secretary of State to have previously been an elected official since Edmund Muskie.

After a comprehensive 4-1 semi-final victory over Aiglons of Mali on Wednesday in Durban, the Super Eagles have quickly put the victory behind them as the team arrived Johannesburg, South Africa on Thursday afternoon to begin preparations for the final on Sunday at the Soccer City in Soweto.

ABUJA—Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume who is standing trial over his alleged convivial relationship with the Boko Haram Islamic sect, has approached the Abuja Division of the Appeal Court, praying it to quash the proof of evidence that was tendered against him by the Federal Government.

AFTER spending 140 days abroad, Enugu State Governor, Mr. Sullivan Chime, quietly returned to Nigeria in the early hours of yesterday.

Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah has hit out at what he sees as the unequal treatment and lack of respect shown to African coaches leading national teams.

PRIMATE of Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), His Grace, Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, has joined other prominent Nigerians in condemning the Abjua High Court judgment, which sentenced Mr. John Yusuf, who stole N23 billion from Police Pension Fund, to two years imprisonment with an option of N750, 000 fine, saying it was an encouragement to looters of government treasury.

NIGERIA Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Ebonyi State, yesterday, arrested five persons suspected to be involved in the illegal diversion of kerosene.