The Police, yesterday, arraigned a 24-year-old man, Ayinde Oniru and one other before a Lagos chief magistrate’s court, sitting at Ebute Metta, for allegedly stealing from two women under the pretence of importing and delivering some goods to a Lagos Oba, His Royal Majesty, Oba Saheed Ademola Elegushi.

A 27-year-old man, identified as Wasiu Moshood, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment without an option of fine by an Ibadan magistrate’s court for stealing a BlackBerry phone.

A team of medical doctors are said to be working round the clock to save the life of a Malaysian returnee, who was allegedly shot Sunday afternoon in his private part by a trigger happy policeman in Owerri.

Enugu State government has appealed against the judgement of Justice C.I. Nwobodo of Enugu State High Court which, on June 18, 2014, declared the removal of Nebo-Ezeabasili as chairperson of Enugu State Universal Basic Education Board, ENSUBEB, over alleged fraud illegal, null and void.

THE House of Representatives has moved for the establishment of Nigeria’s Constituencies Development Fund, as a Bill to that effect passed second reading yesterday.

The latest governance poll results conducted by NOIPolls Limited for the month of June revealed that 57 per cent of adult Nigerians approved of the performance of the President over the past month; a slight one-point decline in his job approval rating from May when it stood at 58 per cent.

The National Association of Nigeria Traders, NANTS, has said that the ‘One Stop Agro Input Centre’ established by the federal government has remained moribund because the government failed to provide requisite amenities that will make it functional.

INSECURITY as typified by the Boko Haram menace, BHM, must rank as one of the longest running stories in the Nigerian media. For five years now, the BHM has unrelentingly hugged the headlines and redefined life in northern
Nigeria especially with stories of one bestial killing competing with another in the resolve to overwhelm the people.

Justice Ademola Adeniyi of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, fixed July 9 for the Federal Government to arraign the alleged mastermind of the April 14 bomb explosion that killed over 75 persons at a motor park in Nyanya Abuja, Aminu Ogwuche.

WHEN a couple of months ago the PDP came up with Ayodele Fayose as its candidate for the 2014 governorship election in Ekiti State, the desperation that must have motivated their choice was not lost on informed observers.

Former National Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olagunsoye Oyinlola has said he remains the authentic secretary of the party known to the law.

The creation of additional 18 local government development areas by the regime of the outgoing Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, has sparked off a fresh crisis as the people of Erinmope Ekiti in Moba Local Government area, have kicked against the siting of the new Ero Local Government headquarters in Igogo Ekiti.

PRESIDENT of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, yesterday, reechoed that the only antidote to ongoing insurgency in the country is for people who are closer to the sect to speak the truth, saying the entire killing is driven by ideology.

GOVERNOR Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, yesterday, said it was an insult to the people and the forefathers of the state to reduce governance to distribution of rice and money otherwise called ‘amala politics ‘ to curry the favour of the people for his second term in office.

Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has approved the constitution of boards of 46 parastatals in the state, which comprise 500 chairmen and members.