EKPORO community in Eleme, Rivers State, has petitioned the state Police Commissioner, Mr. Joseph Mbu, to intervene in the lingering land dispute with neighbouring Ogu people in Ogu/Bolo Local Government Area of the state, to avert loss of lives and property.

A blind man, Shehu Sarki, 62, of Aso Pada, Monday, told a Grade 1 Area Court, Mararaba, Nasarawa State, that he did not entice his friend’s wife.

A newly married couple, Francis Edeh and Ann, along with two others died in a car crash, weekend on the Ugep-Abakaliki Road.

UNUEDO Foundation, has said that unless the unemployment rate in Edo State was not urgently addressed by the state government, the fight against rising incidents of kidnapping would not be fruitful.

If we go by Nigerian political precedents, there is considerable reason to doubt that former president Olusegun Obasanjo will go against the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan if he chooses to contest in 2015. But about two weeks ago Obasanjo had a private one-on-one discussion with Alhaji Rasheed Ladoja in Ibadan, and about two weeks after, a split occurred in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at a convention that was not attended by Obasanjo, who is now sponsporing Ladoja as a new secretary for PDP. These two events suggest some linkages.

As stakeholders of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, intensify efforts to resolve the crisis rocking the party, a founding father of the party, Chief Abu King Shuluwa, has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to tame the duo of Chief Edwin Clark and Asari Dokubo from making inciting and inflammatory statements.

Expectedly, Nigerians, especially those whose cherished pastime is to pick holes in the activities of the President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration, even where none exist, unsuccessfully tried to give unsavory interpretations to the federal cabinet reshuffle which resulted in the exit of nine serving ministers.

Former military President Ibrahim Babangida on Monday inaugurated the new presidential villa acquired, refurbished and furnished with N610 million by the Sokoto State Government.

Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has launched the revised version of the Nigeria Payment System (NPS) Vision 2020 Strategy Document.

An unidentified gunman opened fire at the US Navy Yard in Washington on Monday and wounded several people including two police officers, officials reported.