ABEOKUTA— The Ogun State Police Command yesterday, said it had arrested a 47-year-old farmer, Gbenga Ogunfolabo, for stabbing his wife, Bosede Ogunfolabo, 45, to death with broken bottle during a fisticuff.

In the villages that line the border with Nigeria, even those charged with protecting Cameroonians from Boko Haram fighters fear the fall of darkness.

LAGOS — Three members of a notorious robbery gang that specialised in snatching cars from residents of Victoria Island, Lekki and Ajah axis of Lagos State, have been arrested by anti-robbery policemen attached to Bar Beach Police Station.

FORMER Education Minister, Vice President of the World Bank and Co- Founder of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign, Oby Ezekwesili, picked holes in comments that her campaign to rescue the over 200 Chibok school girls, who were abducted 100 days ago by Boko Haram insurgents is political.

ONITSHA — The Nigerian Navy at the Onitsha Naval Out-post in Anambra State, yesterday, arrested 20 suspected drug peddlers at Nsugbe, near Onitsha, following an intelligence report against the activities of hard drug users in the community.

Team Nigeria will to night join other Commonwealth countries to celebrate the start of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Tuesday that the world must band together 100 days after the mass abduction of Nigeria schoolgirls to send the message that “we will not forget” the more than 200 children still in the clutches of extremists

The Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony, which is due to begin at Celtic Park at 8pm today, will potentially have a global audience of 1.5 billion, according to Glasgow 2014 organisers – and it will certainly have more than a dollop of local flavour, and “a distinctly Glaswegian accent”.

MANY months before it finally came on Sunday July 13 many celebratory events had been lined up to mark the 80th birthday ceremony of the one famously called Kongi, after one of the more memorable characters of his highly fecund imagination, Wole Soyinka.

THE impeachment of Rt. Hon. Chukwuma Nwazunku as Speaker of the Ebonyi State House of Assembly, at dawn last Monday was reflective of the popular saying that “what goes around comes around”.

Mixed reactions, yesterday, greeted the face-off between President Goodluck Jonathan and former head of state, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.) over the perceived drift in the affairs of the nation.

I had sworn that my first visit to Osogbo would be to its world-famous Osun Sacred Grove. Instead, I attended a “mega” rally in the historic town of Iwo, one of many at which Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola is asking the Osun people to renew his mandate as their governor.

Following recent seizure of substandard telephones worth millions of naira in the largest African ICT market, Computer Village Ikeja, Lagos, the Standard Organisation of Nigeria, SON has issued a 7 day ultimatum to mobile phone dealers and importers at the Computer Village to get rid of sustandard products or face the full wrath of the law.

Relief came the way of the thousands of Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in Benue State who had long been suffering from acute privation and grief in settlement camps across the state after being sacked from their ancestral homes in the protracted conflict between Benue farmers and Fulani insurgents.

Manufacturers in the country have accused the Nigeria CustomS Service, NCS, of contributing to the continued congestion at the Ports through arbitrary increase of import duties.