The Divisional Police Officer, DPO, accused of raping a detainee mother of two in Lagos has been released on bail after three days in detention.

Prominent sons and daughters of Delta South senatorial district have resolved to work against any person with questionable character and track record emerging as governor of the state in 2015, just as they insisted that it was the turn of Delta North to produce the next governor of the state.

The technical committee of the Nigeria Football Federation will today meet with Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi over the provisional list of the Nigerian squad for the Brazil 2014 World Cup.

MURTALA Hamman-Yero Nyako, at 70, should be taken seriously. A former Chief of Naval Staff, a former Deputy Chief of Defence Staff, who left service as Vice Admiral, his position as Governor of Adamawa State since 2007, makes him one of Nigeria’s top political actors.

ANGERED by what he termed, wrongful accusation and defamation of character, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Senator Bala Mohammed yesterday threatened to drag the Executive Chairman of Coalition against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL), Comrade Debo Adeniran to court if he fails to apologise to him.

Information Minister Mr. Labaran Maku has called on Christians and Muslims in the country to unite and defeat insurgents who seek to divide and set the people against each other.

Hundreds of youths, yesterday, threatened to burn down a building rumoured to be a suspected ritualists’ den in Ijaiye area of Abeokuta South Local Government Area of Ogun State but for the intervention of security agents from the Nigeria Police, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and the Ogun State Vigilance Service Organisation, VSO.

In a bid to address the growing cases of violence against children, especially child sexual abuse, rape and abduction of innocent children the Federal Government of has set up a National Joint Task Force for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse and Violence against Children in Nigeria,

Cement Producers Association of Nigeria (CPAN), weekend, petitioned the Presidency over the high cost of the commodity in Nigeria.

Resolution of the country’s epileptic power situation appears to be far-fetched at the moment, as the power distribution companies have disclosed that most of the factors responsible for the problems bedeviling the Nigerian power sector are beyond their control.

GONE, the Magic Muse of Aracataca. In a manner similar to his wondrous tales, I can see him levitating towards the skies, a pen in one hand, a trumpet in the other, a rueful smile on his face. For his body is too precious, too imperishable for the grave’s cramping dungeon and its ravenous coven of worms.

THE Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria entitles the president to run for a term of four years renewable for another four.

AWKA — THE parents of 35-year-old Mr. Chidozie Anyaene from Ezioko, Oko, in Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State, who was shot and allegedly taken away by soldiers, during the Afia Olu festival, last Saturday, in the town, yesterday, pleaded with military authorities to release their son dead or alive.

There was pandemonium, yesterday, at Idi-Oro area of Mushin, Lagos, as hoodlums from the notorious hotspot of Akala attacked residents of Railway Line and New Balogun Street, Idi-Oro, leading to the death of two of the attackers from Akala.

DELEGATES will today break into 20 standing committees on issues relating to national security, federalism, devolution of power, regionalism, indigeneship, state creation, roles for traditional rulers, minority rights, ethnic nationalities, revenue allocation, resource control, corruption and immunity clause, among others, expected to dominate at the national confab.