By SUSAN EDEH, Bauchi Days after, grief-stricken family members of Mr Yakubu Wakili, a traditional title holder in Alkeleri Local Government Area in Bauchi State, are still trying to come to terms with a most unusual tragedy that befell them recently. Indeed it was a tragedy that threw most residents of the Bayara community, a […]

The Police in Lagos have arrested a member of the Lagos State Council of Obas and Chiefs. Vanguard learnt that his arrest was in connection with weekend’s communal clash in Ajah area of Lagos,where six persons were killed and several others injured.

Delta State’s Ogedegbe Primary School yesterday beat Uwa Model Primary School, Benin 4-2 to win this year’s Channels Television Kids Cup.

The Bureau for Public Enterprises, BPE, yesterday, cleared three firms to bid for the liquidation of the Nigerian Telecommunications Plc, NITEL, and the Mobile Telecommunications Plc, MTEL.

LAGOS—Nigerian Navy, NN, Beecroft, Apapa, Lagos, has warned pirates to stay clear of the command’s jurisdiction in their own interest, or face unpalatable consequences.

ABAKALIKI—WIFE of Ebonyi State governor, Mrs. Josephine Elechi, has raised alarm over the increasing rate of child rape, child labour, teenage pregnancy, child trafficking and other forms of maltreatment against children in the state.

GUNMEN, suspected to be sea bandits, have killed a 30-year-old boat driver, Godknows Wuruke, and injured over 10 persons in Delta State.

Bomadi- Ekameta and Ogirengbene communities in Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State have raised alarm over alleged invasion of their communities’ forests by Integrated Data Servicing Nigeria Limited, IDSL, in the name of seismic operation.

LAGOS—Activities in Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja, came to a halt, Monday, when hundreds of traders in Pelewura Market stormed the office of Governor Babatunde Fashola and the State House of Assembly, to protest planned demolition of the market by government for the construction of cable car station.

The Bureau for Public Enterprises, BPE, yesterday cleared three firms to bid for the liquidation of the Nigerian Telecommunications Plc, NITEL, and the Mobile Telecommunications Plc, MTEL.

LAGOS—GOVERNOR Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, Monday, urged children in the state to be vigilant and security-conscious as the state joined the rest of the world to celebrate this year’s Children’s Day.

Igbo Youth Council, IYC, has expressed regrets that 17 years after Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe passed on, his Mausoleum and Centre had remained abandoned.

Worried by the stoppage of work on the construction of the Ekemegbu Oha -Afor Uzoagba road which links Uratta in the Owerri North Local Government Area and Uzoagba in the Ikeduru Local Government Area of Imo State, a socio-cultural group, Messrs Klobb X has appealed to the State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha to compel the contractor to return to site or re-award the contract to a more competent contractor.

Four foreigners kidnapped last month when their vessel was attacked off the West African coast have been freed unharmed in Nigeria’s oil-producing region, police said on Monday.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested the Vice President of the Nigerian Football Federation, Mr. Mike Umeh.