The emergence of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as the gubernatorial flag bearer of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN in 2011 predicted trouble for the status quo. It didn’t take long for it to burst.

A teenage girl said to have been locked up in a wooden cage for about 30 months by her parents over alleged strange ailment attributed to witchcraft has finally been released by members of a foundation.

DETECTIVES in Ondo State have arrested a quark nurse over the death of an 18-year-old girl, Omolayo Afolabi, who she helped to terminate a two-month pregnancy in Iju/Itaogbolu area of the state.

Senator Smart Adeyemi, was a former president of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ before his entry into the political arena. Senator Adeyemi who represents Kogi West Senatorial District is also the vice-chairman of the Northern Senators Forum, NSF.

NATIONAL Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu said, yesterday, that he would reconcile all warring factions in the party, adding that PDP remains a reality.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested a Lagos State University graduate for cloning the Facebook accounts of prominent Nigerians and using same to defraud unsuspecting Nigerians.

Three persons have been reportedly killed while several have been declared missing in a clash that erupted Sunday morning between Fulani herdsmen and Tiv natives in Adeke village, which is less than four kilometres from the heart of Makurdi town.

IT is obvious the Nigerian economy is in a precarious situation. Is it anything new? Even oil theft, and the unclear accounts of oil receipts, coupled with corruption that are speedily draining resources available to governments, are not new.

The Labour Party in Ogun State, yesterday, urged members of the state House of Assembly to commence impeachment process against the state governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun over the political crisis in Abeokuta and Ewekoro.

Super Eagles man-of-the-moment, Ejike Uzoenyi has vowed to do everything possible to stop the Atlas Lions of Morocco in Saturday’s quarter final match of the African Nations Championship here in Cape Town.

The sudden death of a middle-aged woman, Faith Adakole, wife of a Police Constable, Daniel Adakole, attached to Mopol 23, Lagos, is currently stirring controversy among residents of Agokome Village, in Badagry area of Lagos State, as they accused the husband of allegedly beating his wife to death.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday appealed to the Senate to approve an increase in the amount to be raised through the Diaspora Bond from the international capital market from the existing $100 million to a maximum of $300 million.

The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, has ordered Force headquarters to take over investigations into the torture of two women accused of stealing pepper in a market at Ejigbo, Lagos State recently.

MEMBERS of Edo State House of Assembly, yesterday, walked out the member representing Oredo Constituency II, Mr Patrick Osayimen, over his alleged improper dressing.

The Police Special Fraud Unit, SFU, yesterday, re arraigned two persons in a Federal High Court in Lagos, charged with N9.8 billion fraud.