CALABAR—A 25-year-old man, who gave his name as Simon Monday, has said that in the past nine months, he has drugged over 10 people and taken their cars to Aba, Abia State, to sell.

Super Falcons Head Coach, Edwin Okon, on Tuesday commended his team for securing a semifinal place at the ongoing Africa Women Championship (AWC) in Namibia.

NIGERIA and South Africa have in the past three weeks been embroiled in a serious diplomatic and economic dispute over the twin arms purchase deals that would have seen South African Concerns playing the role of third party in the arms purchase transactions.

The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) says it has intention of creating a new and genuine database of pensioners under the Defined Benefit Scheme, DBS, by embarking on a verification exercise in the future. However, pensioners under the scheme are skeptical of any verification going forward

ASABA—Popular Nollywood actor, Mr. Clems Onyeka, and a policeman died yesterday, when armed robbers attacked a billion van in Asaba, the capital city of Delta State.

FORMER Head of State, retirerd General Yakubu Gowon, yesterday, tasked politicians in the country to refrain from personal attacks on those in leadership positions, saying what they can do was to argue on administrative policies being adopted.

A survey released yesterday by BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager, Bank of America has revealed that investors across the globe are concerned over the imminent end of quantitative easing (QE) in the U.S. saying that it has left investors much less confident in the outlook for the global economy and corporate profit.

The title of this article reminds me of a TV sitcom in the Eighties where a Spanish guy, in a UK class of multinationals, was asked to give an example of a “metaphor”.

The Executive Director, Women Advocates Research and Documentation Center, WARDC, Dr Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, has urged Government at all levels to deploy resources in addressing maternal mortality and morbidity in the country.

Bauchi—Hundreds of armed thugs yesterday invaded the residence of the Publicity Secretary for Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the North East, Sani Alamin Muhammad, at Tirwun, along Maiduguri road and threatened to burn his house for supporting the endorsement of President Goodluck Jonathan.

President Goodluck Jonathan has been conferred with the ‘Grand Commander of ICT Promoters in Nigeria,’ for being Nigeria’s first digital President, at the just concluded 2014 Nigeria Information and Communication Technology, ICT, Centenary awards held recently.

A PEOPLES Democratic Party Governorship aspirant for Rivers State, Dr. Silva Opusunju, yesterday, outlined a seven point programme of action to reposition the state as a safe destination for habitation and re-industrialisation.

The Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has said that any Nigerian who voted for the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2015 general elections would be regarded as an enemy of the north.

FOR the second time, Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has indicated interest to contest the presidential election; the first being in 2006 after retiring as Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) president and joining partisan politics.

SHOCKED by the deplorable condition of federal roads in the South East, Chief Olisa Metuh-led Publicity and Evaluation Committee, has vowed to summon the Minister of Works, Mike Onolememen, for urgent intervention to save the people of the zone from avoidable road carnage.