Asaba—DELTA State Government, Thursday, assuaged the fears expressed by the people of Ogume community over the recent killing of their farmers and destruction of farmlands by herdsmen, saying that measures had been taken to ensure that herdsmen were confined to designated grazing areas.

After spending a night with operatives of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Abuja, former Bayelsa State Governor, Mr. Timipre Sylva, has been admitted to bail by the anti-graft agency.

WARRI—FRONT for Ijaw Survival and Hope, FISH, and the Niger Delta Intellectuals Council for Good Governance, NDICGG, have dismissed the calls for the arrest of the Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, and former militant leader, Alhaji Asari Dokubo, over their comments on 2015 Presidency as “political hypocrisy.”

Federal Government, yesterday, told a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja that investigations revealed that the Islamist sect, Boko Haram, received sponsor-ship from another terrorist organisation based in Algeria.

…Says Dokubo merely re-echoed Buhari’s statement
ABUJA—NATIONAL President of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, Thursday, warned President Goodluck Jonathan not to waste tax payers’ money on an amnesty programme for the Boko Haram sect, describing it as ‘a futile exercise’.