Emotions ran high, yesterday, at the 81 Division Headquarters of the Nigerian Army, Victoria Island, Lagos, as widows of military personnel killed by members of the Boko Haram sect last month in Maiduguiri, Borno State were presented a cheque of N1 million each.

TWENTY-six serving Senators of the Federal Republic of Nigeria yesterday hailed former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, six northern governors who stormed out of the venue of Saturday’s Special National convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers state for the formation of a parallel executive of the party with Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje as national chairman, Dr. Sam Sam Jaja as Deputy National Chairman and Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola as National Secretary.

Soccer hooliganism reared its ugly head in Ilorin at the weekend. An Assistant Referee in the Kwara United/Warri Wolves league match, CID Duruna was so battered that he ended up in the hospital and would be a guest of the medics for more days if not weeks.

GOVERNOR Babangida Aliyu of Niger State, has cautioned the political class in the country to exercise caution and high sense of responsibility and not to overheat the polity, which has the potential to cause crisis in the country.

•As Lagos condemns arrest of residents
THERE have been several cases of oil spillages across Lagos State with attendant loss of property and lives some times.

The Police, yesterday, arraigned an author, Abraham Oshoko, before a Lagos Magistrate’s court, sitting in Ikeja, for allegedly taking photographs of some police officers while arresting commercial motorcycle operators, known as Okada riders, at a round about in Dopemu area of Lagos.

GENERAL T. Y. Danjuma’s observation that there is yet to be a government in Nigeria that the people can defend is the thesis addressed in that Presidential Address.

THE alleged mastermind behind the rape of the two daughters (names withheld) of the Councillor for Ndiagu Echara Ward I in Ikwo Local Lovernment Area of Ebonyi State, Mrs Margret Elom, was, yesterday, arrested by the operatives of state police command in Abakaliki.

The Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta, code-named Operation Pulo Shield, has impounded two barges laden with illegally sourced crude oil on the Kasabobo creek in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

INTERNS at Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi-Araba, Lagos, yesterday, protested non-payment of seven months salaries, disrupting healthcare services.

SIX local government areas in Anambra State were yesterday handed cheques totaling N1.2 billion for the execution of projects under the Millennium Development Goal, MDG, programmes.

FORMER Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Rowland Owie, yesterday, called on the Department of State Services, DSS, to release the stowaway teenage boy, Daniel Oikhena, saying that keeping the boy in their custody does not augur well for the country.

AS the crisis in Rivers State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, persists, a non-partisan political pressure group in the state, Ekere Ikwerre, has offered to mediate in the crisis.

By FUNMI OLASUPO Abuja — Following the alert received from the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, on the potential threats of flooding of Kainji and Jebba dams during this year’s raining season, the Minister of Water Resources, Mrs. Sarah Ochekpe, has warned those living on flood plains to vacate. Ochekpe made the call at an […]

Governments of Nigeria and the United Kingdom are in talks over a new phase in the fight against Boko Haram, British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ambassador Andrew Pocock has said.