LAGOS — The Nigerian Navy ship, NNS Wey, Navy Town, Lagos, has arrested six persons for masquerading as naval personnel, with a warning to others still engaged in such act to desist from it or face same fate as the arrested suspects

THE same spirit that propelled “the weeping prophet”, Jeremiah, to write the book of Lamentations at the destruction of Jerusalem by Babylon, with her people killed, tortured or taken captive, is more than enough to make us reside permanently in lamentation for today’s world that is filled with injustice, poverty, crime, war and all forms of rebellion.

The ruling All Progressives Congress APC in Osun State has raised alarm over alleged plans by the PDP to rig the election with the collaboration of the presidency and security agencies.

THE All Progressives Congress, APC and former Commissioner for Information and Orientation in Ogun State, Sina Kawonise yesterday, traded words over comments by the former governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel on the current government.

IT was a day of glowing tributes for late human rights activist, Bamidele Francis Aturu as jurists, lawyers and rights activists came together at a colloquium in his honour in Lagos. It was indeed a gathering of who is who in the human rights community and the Bar.

Civil rights activists, Nollywood actors, lawyers and lawmakers, yesterday, staged a protest in Lagos calling for the release of the abducted Chibok girls or the Federal Government should forget next year’s elections.

Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) has called for development of a framework that will fast track the passage and implementation of budgets in the country.

FirstBank Limited and global payments provider, PayPal, have announced a partnership to encourage Nigerians shop online across the world.

ABIA State government has demolished a building belonging to one Ogbuonye Ogbonna Daniel, suspected to be involved in kidnapping activities in the state.

Lagos—THE management of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, yesterday berated Lagos State government over recent comments by Governor Babatunde Fashola on the persistent gridlock over the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway and efforts to resolve it.

The Federal Government, yesterday, vowed to mete out severe sanctions to perpetual defaulters in the payment of electricity bills.

The Plateau State Government yesterday, said it had dismissed 1,400 teachers found with fake certificates in the ongoing biometric data capturing exercise.

MAIDUGURI— Barely three days after the Damboa attacks and killings, suspected Boko Haram gunmen attacked the town again and shot dead five residents before fleeing into the forest in Toyota Hilux vehicles and motorcycles.

Irked by the ravaging insurgency that has led to massive loss of lives and property, especially in the north-eastern region of the country, clerics under the aegis of the Nigerian Catholic Diocesan Priests’ Association (NCDPA), have called on members of the Islamist sect, Boko Haram to embrace the path of peace and consider the offer for dialogue by the Federal Government.

The United States Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Office and the Nigerian Police, yesterday, signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, on Police Training Modernisation.