A tight security cordon was on Friday thrown on Iju-Odo, Ondo State, as the final burial rites for the former governor of the state, Dr Olusegun Agagu, commenced  at St Paul Anglican Church.

The Federal Government said in Abuja on Thursday that the new automobile policy was not aimed at immediate ban on the importation of fairly used vehicles.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condoled with the families of all those who died in Thursday’s plane crash in Lagos and prayed for the speedy recovery of those who were injured.

The negotiation between the Federal Government and the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) ended in a stalemate in the early hours of Friday.

Failure of regulation may have been responsible for the crash of Associated Airlines plane at the Lagos airport yesterday, killing about 15 persons and injuring others.

“Armed bandits” have killed a Niger soldier and seriously wounded three others in Nigeria’s volatile north-east, a high-ranking Niger security official told AFP Thursday, in new violence to hit an area considered as the homebase of Islamist sect Boko Haram.

GOVERNOR Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo state wept openly both at Akure Airport and Government House following the crash of the Plane that was conveying the former governor Olusegun Agagu and his family members and government officials for his lying in state yesterday.

Nigerians, yesterday, reacted to the plane crash involving the family of late Governor Olusegun Agagu of Ondo State in Lagos, describing the incident not only as shocking but a double tragedy.

Late Dr. Olusegun Agagu, the immediate past governor of OndoState, will be buried today as planned.

The All Progressives Congress’ (APC) candidate for the Nov.16 governorship election in Anambra, Dr Chris Ngige, has presented a12-point agenda he promised to execute if elected.