There is a thin line between a romantic statement like: “I love you so much, I want to share my life with you until death do us part”, and the lunatic-fringe anthem” “I love you so much that if you try to leave me, I will kill you”. Cloud, a relationship expert says that people who say such things love others the way spiders love flies; they love to capture them, trap them in immobilising fetters, and drain nourishment out of them at peckish moments, this is not the kind of love you want.

The lingering fuel scarcity which hit had on the entire country in the last four days, may easy up this week.

MAIDUGURI—The Islamic sect, Boko Haram, yesterday, slaughtered 74 men and 20 children at Njaba Village in Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State for refusing to join the insurgents.

ABUJA—PEOPLES Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential Campaign Organisation, PDPPCO, said yesterday that wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Dame Patience Jonathan has no apology on her assessment of the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) as being “brain dead,” saying she was right.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has described the public avowal of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to oppose the use of Card Reader in this month’s rescheduled elections as a vindication of its claim that the ruling party was desperate to rig the election or prevent it from holding.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, assured parents of the abducted Chibok girls and all Nigerians that the girls were still alive and his government was doing everything possible to rescue them.

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, lamented yesterday that mismanagement of resources has been the main problem confronting Nigeria.

OVER 5000 youths from the South West, yesterday, converged on Akure, the Ondo State capital to endorse the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan.

A 21-year-old student, Obiechina Chikeluba, has been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for allegedly defrauding a Briton of N20 million in an internet romance scam.

Two suspected Indian hemp dealers, arrested during routine raids by operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, in Lagos, have attributed their activities to their inability to fend for their families.

President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick says he decided to invest in the training and retraining of Nigerian referees because of his conviction that they can help to improve the quality of the Nigerian league if they have a conducive environment to officiate matches.

In his fourth pursuit for the presidency, Muhammadu Buhari is in his old age adopting new patterns of political behaviour. How the rebranding will help him is another matter.

TO avoid violent clashes and peaceful elections, political parties in Ogun State, yesterday, signed a peace accord.

Ten more auto plants have finalised plans to begin operations in Nigeria before the end of this year.

By Simon Ebegbulem A man accused of shooting a Fulani herdsman and facing trial for the alleged crime in Uromi, Edo State has absconded and now at large, the police told the Chief Magistrate, Mrs Ojo Maureen Osa yesterday when the case was called up for hearing at the Magistrate Court, Uromi, Esan East Local […]