ABUJA — Over 20 children have lost their lives in various road traffic crashes that occurred in the country during the Christmas celebration.

Senator Abdulaziz Usman Tarabu, representing North-East Senatorial zone escaped lynching at a Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, rally held at Biriniwa in Jigawa state.

WARRI—A London- based rights group, Niger Delta for Peace and Development, has commended President Goodluck Jonathan over his appointees to the Board of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, just as it applauded the Senate for rising above local politics in the screening and confirming of the appointees.

Delta State Police Command said it had arrested 31 armed robbers and kidnappers in the last one week, while eight robbers sustained severe bullet wounds in a shoot-out with police and many guns and over 140 live ammunition recovered.

Yola—The 23 Brigade of Nigerian Army in Yola has advised the Christian community in Adamawa to round off their end of year Church services today by 10 p.m.

BY Austin Ogwuda Asaba—THE management of  Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC, in charge of Asaba and Agbor districts in Delta State, has decried the non-payment of electricity bills by consumers, noting that same was  posing a big challenge to the company. It added  that it won’t write off outstanding bills incurred before it came on  […]

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Actress Fathia Balogun has finally dropped her ex-husband Saide Balogun’s surname to revert to her maiden name ‘Williams’.

The convener of Save Nigeria Group and a frontline critic of the Jonathan’s administration, Pastor Tunde Bakare has berated the presidency for giving him a cow as Christmas gift.

The presiding pastor of the Latter Rain Church makes mockery of the gift while addressing his congregation on Sunday, noting that he did not solicit for the cow and would have returned it but for the persuasion from the presidency.
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The Kaduna Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said 24 people were killed in 28 road crashes recorded in the state during the Yuletide.

The Sector Commander, Mr Olu Olagunju made this known on Monday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna.