An Ikeja High Court, yesterday, reserved judgement in the trial of Akolade Arowolo, who allegedly knifed his wife, Titilayo, a banker, to death sometime in 2011.

Justice Lateefat Okunnu informed both counsels in the case that the date for judgement would be communicated to them later by the court.

FORMER President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, declined to respond to President Goodluck Jonathan’s reply to his December 2 letter, saying that he stands by the contents of his missive.

Obasanjo who spoke to newsmen at his hilltop mansion in Abeokuta through his media aide, Tunde Oladunjoye, said he would not reply the letter because he has chosen to maintain his serenity.

ABUJA— THE Federal Government has ordered that some banking institutions handling the payments of benefits to the last batch of disengaged Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, workers be investigated over their alleged culpability in delaying processing of the payments.

Since the merger of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State with the All Progressives Congress (APC) last month, the political climate in Kwara has changed as politicians opposed to the political dominance of Senator Bukola Saraki have suddenly come out from their shells.

ONITSHA – Men of the Directorate of State Services, DSS in Anambra State have arrested a middle-aged man for allegedly raping and deflowering a 23-year-old secondary school girl in Obosi, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State.

Abuja—Chief of Naval Staff, CNS, Vice-Admiral Dele Ezeoba, yesterday said the Nigerian Navy destroyed 1,556 illegal oil refineries and arrested 1,646 suspects in 2013.
Ezeoba disclosed this at the launch of the Chief of Naval Staff Strategic Guidance, SG, 02 in Abuja, yesterday.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has described the arrest of the Speaker, Clerk and nine members of Kano State legislature by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, as an undisguised case of political vendetta by a hurting Presidency, whose target is actually the state governor.

WARRI—The Awhotu of Okere-Urhobo, Chief Emmanuel Okumagba, has called for the creation of an Urhobo state, insisting that it was long overdue.

ABEOKUTA — A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ogun State, Chief Kushimo Lukmon, was yesterday, attacked by unknown gunmen who broke into his house at Ita-Eko, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.

The Federal Government has given approval for a new firm, Sea Waters Environmental Services Limited, to commence operations in the maritime, as well as oil and gas sector for cleaning up of pollution in the nation”s waterways.