FORMER Commander of the defunct Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, Victor Ebikabowei Ben, alias General Boyloaf and head of the Odua People’s Congress, OPC, Gani Adams, held a secret meeting, Wednesday, in Lagos.

Malam Garba Mohammad, the Kaduna State Chairman of Correspondents Chapel of the NUJ, on Thursday said media organisations must avoid promoting hate speeches to avert instability ahead of the forthcoming general elections. Mohammad said this in Kaduna at a workshop on hate speeches, organised by African Media Development Foundation.

TB Joshua has lodged an appeal against a court ruling that he should testify about the collapse of the Synagogue church. Lawyer Seun Abimbola, representing the preacher known to his followers as “The Prophet”, announced the appeal as he explained his client’s fourth no-show at a hearing probing the tragedy.

Nigeria and The Gambia had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote trade, investment and best practice among women, the aged and people living with disabilities from both countries. The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Zainab Maina and Vice-President of The Gambia, Isatou Njie-Saidy, signed the document on behalf of their countries on Wednesday in New York.

Turkey on Thursday said an intelligence agent working for one of the states in the US-led coalition had been captured for helping three British teenage girls cross into Syria to join Islamic State (IS) jihadists.

Presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, General Muhamadu Buhari rtd, has warned Nigerians against voting for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP at the general polls if they truly want to end corruption in the country.

Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra on Thursday launched N16 billion worth plantation exclusively for cultivation and processing of tomato and cassava in the state.

A mother of six, Omowunmi Oluwadamilare, on Thursday in Lagos pleaded with an Orile Agege Customary Court to dissolve her marriage over drunkenness, battery and lack of care by her husband.

The Police in Benue have confirmed the killing of two chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at Gbinde village in Ushongo Local Government Area of the state by gunmen.

The Director-General, National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Amb. Ayodele Oke on Wednesday assured the international community that the country’s general elections, scheduled for March 28 and April 11, would hold as scheduled. Oke, who spoke at Atlantic Council in Washington D.C., said the Federal Government had done was dismantling the social and security challenges that caused the postmen of the elections.