Residents of five villages in Yabo Local Government Area of Sokoto State got the shock of their lives at the weekend when a wind storm struck and destroyed 110 houses. Presently the residents are still counting their losses, especially in the villages that were completely razed by the raging storm.

THREE sections of a road project on Owerri-Umuahia in Imo state yesterday failed all tests to ascertain the level of compliance in the execution of contracts as specified by the Federal Ministry of Works.

A building materials merchant in Olo community, Enugu State who was kidnapped by a yet-to-be identified gunmen alongside his maternal brother who just came back from Europe, has reportedly been strangled to death by his abductors.

The President of the Church of Christ In all Nations, COCIN, Rev. Soja Bewarang has called on the Federal Government to reverse the process initiated towards granting amnesty to the Boko Haram sect. 

Promise Isaac has expressed shock over Michael Eneramo’s snub by Nigeria as a replacement for injured Emmanuel Emenike.

AFRICAN newspapers take centre stage this week in the United Kingdom as the Department of African Studies and Anthropology, DASA, incorporating the Centre of West African Studies, CWAS, of the University of Birmingham, holds its annual Cadbury International Conference on 17th and 18th of May.

A 27- year-old man identified as Morufu Garba is currently cooling his heels in police net for defrauding and assaulting a 20 -year- old lady in Ebute-Metta area of Lagos, recently. The incident happened on the 12th of April, 2013 at about 10pm; when the victim identified as Aminat Ajala, a fashion designing apprentice at Ebute-Metta, returned from work; tired and hungry only to discover that there was no food in the house.

Reactions yesterday trailed the declaration of State of Emergency in three Northern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa.

First, son of late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu,Emeka Ojukwu jnr, has said that his father never made any wish for Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State to be re-elected in the 2010 gubernatorial election.

THE Inspector-General of Police, Mr Mohammed Abubakar, wants to raise the entry point salary in the force from N28,000 to N100,000.

THE Nigerian Punch at page 12, Thursday May 9, carried a report that the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, has asked Nigerians not to blame the violence in the North on Muslims.

…As impeached Dep Gov sues JPROS CEO for defamation
OWERRI—The last is yet to be heard about the N458 million bribe scandal rocking Imo State as the state government has ordered immediate confiscation of property belonging to JPROS International Company Limited.

The Nigerian motion picture practitioners under the auspice of the Screenwriters Guild of Nigeria has petitioned President Goodluck Jonathan over the appointment of Engr. Danjuma Dabo as the new Managing Director of the Nigerian Film Corporation, (NFC).

The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar yesterday saved what could have been a crisis as he stopped an aggrieved police officer working in the Presidential Villa who brought his men to stop the election into sports federations.

Two militant groups that fought each other in the last 10 years for control of the oil and gas rich Okpai Kingdom in Ndokwa East Local Government Area of Delta State, have surrendered to the traditional ruler of Okpai Kingdom, Igwe Goldring Ugbome II, with an appeal to the Federal Government to consider them for amnesty.