Abuja—Israel has promised to assist Nigeria in fighting corruption and terrorism and also help to develop the agriculture sector.

Enugu—A teenage boy has been shot dead in Enugu State by his cousin over an undisclosed issue.

The Corps Marshal and Chief Executive of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Boboye Oyeyemi has admonished Nigerians to hold tight to the spirit of peace and safer road culture during the Easter celebration and beyond. In his Easter message, Corps Marshal Oyeyemi stressed the need for peaceful coexistence among Nigerians, enjoining them to be defensive and considerate to other road users while driving during the period, adding that it is through such virtues that the much desired national stability can be sustained.

Akure—POLICE in Ondo State, yesterday, paraded seven of the armed robbers that killed seven policemen in a recent robbery attacks on four banks at Owo, Ondo State, which also claimed the lives of four others and two bank officials.

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, House of Representative candidate in Epe Federal Constituency of Lagos State, Chief Apeson Bola Gbabijo, has alleged that last Saturday’s election was rigged by the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the area.

Lagos State government has criticised the National Inland Waterways Authority, NIWA, over alleged demand notices and imposition of fees on some residents and property owners in the Ikoyi and Victoria Island areas of the state.

IF the outcome of the March 28 Presidential and National Assembly polls in Bauchi State and the political atmosphere is anything to go by, the All Progressives Congress (APC) will record easy victories in Saturday’s Governorship and State Assembly elections in the state.

Peugeot 4008 sport utility, vehicle. This is an unusual Peugeot. The renowned French car maker is not known for making sport utility vehicles (SUVs). It is a master, when it comes to the production of sedans and estates. But as the saying goes, necessity is the mother of inventions, Peugeot has taken advantage of the current trend in the automobile industry whereby sport utility vehicles have become the way forward to launch itself into the SUV category

THE real estate sector has taken on the harshest side of the stick for decades. Though very important, it is often the forgotten sector that takes a dismal share after all other sectors have taken their fat portions. It is a paradox of some sorts because real estate which connotes houses, roads and other infrastructural facilities that make modern living worthwhile, ought to be given the priority it rightly deserves because housing follows quickly on the heels of food as the greatest needs of man.

Bauchi—No fewer than seven persons were killed yesterday, while 18 others sustained injuries in a motor accident along Misau Road, about five kilometres from Azare town of Katagum Local Government Area, Bauchi State.

The emergence of Gen. Mohammadu Buhari (rtd) as President-elect, on the platform of All Progressives Congress, APC, notwithstanding, the Urhobo nation, yesterday, said it will ignore a plot by some elites to dump the candidate of the Labour Party, Chief Great Ogboru, for that of the APC, Chief O’tega Emerhor, as the new consensus candidate of the ethnic group.

SHORELINE communities and fisher-persons in Delta and Bayelsa States, affected by the Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company, SNEPCo, Bonga oil spill of December 20, 2011, have described as bizarre, an alleged refusal by the company to pay $3.6 billion compensation to the victims of the crude oil spill, as directed by the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, NOSDRA, on grounds that some persons took the firm to court over the spill.

Next Saturday’s governorship and House of Assembly elections in Imo State is going to be a battle royale between the All Progressives Congress, APC, the ruling party and the People’s Democratic Party, PDP.

THERE was an undercurrent of you can’t pull it off in a number of newspaper headlines in U.S. press as Nigerians went to the polls to elect their president. Three examples will suffice, two of which were published on March 28. The Washington Post proclaimed that “The Nigerian presidential vote is extended amid glitches and fears of violence.” The Los Angeles Times published a story that was laced with some cynicism. Its intro stated that “After widespread failures of a new electronic voter ID system aimed at preventing ballot-rigging, Nigerian election officials extended voting through Sunday in a tightly contested presidential race that some worry will prove a prelude to violence.” And, an Associated Press story (March 29) informed the world that “Nigerians continue voting Sunday, after technical hitches and despite some extremist violence.”

Abiodun Dina, an author and public relations consultant aptly described them in a touching tribute as the silent heroes in the emergence of General Muhammadu Buhari as President-elect. Others prefer to see them as martyrs of the current quest to consolidate on the gains of democratic governance in Lagos, nay, Nigeria. But while political actors were either celebrating their victories or sulking over their losses in the March 28, 2015 presidential and National Assembly elections, not many were aware of how these acclaimed “heroes of democracy” met their tragic end.