Some residents of Sapele and its environ yesterday protested the blackout that has enveloped the town for more than one year.

THE Delta Police Command Asaba on Tuesday rescued Mrs. Roseline Okolie, a kidnap victim and wife of Delta State University lecturer, just as they arrested one of the kidnappers.

One person was allegedly shot while eight others sustained injuries in a fracas between members of the All Progressive Congress APC and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at the ever busy Rumuoprikom community end of Ikwerre road yesterday morning.

These are uneasy times for the Whoba family of Umuode, Ihinna community in Ihitte Uboma Local Government Area of Imo state, following the alleged threat to their lives and a murder attempt on one of their own, Chima Ezeoha Whoba, by policemen attached to the Speaker of the Imo state House of Assembly, Benjamin Uwajumogu.

LAGOS—As part of moves to compliment the federal and Lagos State governments’ efforts against the spread of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in the country, Senator Gbenga Ashafa, has distributed hand sanitizers to communities.

ONITSHA—A lawmaker in the Anambra State House of Assembly, Mr Chugbo Enwezor, and a former commissioner for lands, survey and urban development, Mr Okoli Akirika, yesterday, condemned the recommendation by the delegates to the national conference that local government system in the country should be scrapped.

The National Youth Service Corps NYSC has introduced two streams for the 2014 Batch ‘B’ service year. This innovation is not unconnected to increase in population of corpse members without corresponding facilities

A country can still do well with bad laws but it cannot do well with bad judges. This is because if the judges are upright, they can mitigate the injustice, inhumanness created by people who made bad laws. But when judges are corrupt, even with good laws, development, justice cannot thrive” (Justice Akinola Aguda 1923-2004)
The impeachment of the former governor of Adamawa state, Murtala Nyako may become a lid to floodgate of impeachment of state governors and perhaps the President and Commander-in-Chief of Armed Forces of Nigeria to come.

The Ogun State Police Command said, yesterday, that it had arrested a suspected cultist Ologunlagba Timilehin, 21, and three other persons over the killing of a student of the Gateway Polytechnic Igbesa, in Ado Odo Otta Local Government Area of the State.

Member of Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Adebimpe Akinsola, has described the decadence in the education sector in Nigeria as a systemic problem which crept into the country in a gradual process