Lagos—Lagos State Government, yesterday, said police report was delaying prosecution of those arrested in connection with the case of two women severely tortured over alleged theft of pepper in Ejigbo area of the state.

Committee of E-Banking Industry Heads (CeBIH) has called for public support and understanding for the cashless policy scheduled to go nationwide from July 1st.

FORMER Lagos State Governor and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday threatened fire and brimstone over any plan to rig the forthcoming governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states fixed for this year’s June and August, warning that “It will be rig and roast.”

Emotion ran high, yesterday, at the Oduduwa office of the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Ikeja, after an indigent woman revealed how she was raped by members of a non existing Non-Governmental Organisation, NGO, which promised to help treat her two-and-half year-old daughter of cancer.

Even as the furore generated over his allegation that the Federal Government was involved in acts of genocide against the north was yet to end, Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State, yesterday, launched a fresh attack on President Goodluck Jonathan, saying that he had a hand in the security challenges facing the north in the country.

Kano was jolted, yesterday, when an Upper Sharia court in the state sentenced to death by stoning a 63-year-old HIV positive for raping and infecting a minor with the deadly virus.

REFUGEES from some neighboring African countries recently, at a town hall meeting organised by the South West zone of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, NCFRMI, appealed to the Federal Government to assist them by integrating them into the society.

THE Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) may have decided to dump MTN, as providers of transmission services for clearing information in cargo delivery process.

The Federal Government claimed, yesterday, that the country’s generation capacity has picked up, hitting 4,105.90 megawatts as at Tuesday, this week.

REGIONAL sentiments and emotions took centre stage, yesterday, during contributions on resource control by members of the National Conference Committee on Devolution of Powers.