Operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at Akanu Ibiam International Airport, AIIA, Enugu, have arrested a Lagos pastor over drug trafficking.

Workers of China Civil Engineering Construction Company, CCECC, at the ongoing N29 billion Ikorodu Road reconstruction project, yesterday, protested alleged anti-labour treatment and unwillingness of the company to pay disengaged employees their entitlements.

Mr. Oghoro Bishop Ese, a former management partner with an oil services company, Taleveras Group of Companies Limited (TGCL),has appealed the March 24, 2015 judgment delivered by a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja in a suit by the company and its Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Igho Sanomi. In his notice of appeal before the Abuja division of the Court of Appeal, the appellant alleged that the trial court denied him fair hearing, while querying the procedure adopted by it.

Before the date of my retirement, I had wound down mentally from the work. My frame of mind was that the work was coming to an end. But, as of today, I do miss the camaraderie with my colleagues. When I joined the bench, I think judges in Lagos State at that time were somewhat stiff to one another. But along the line we started going on retreats. We were spending between a week to 10 days out of the country, in another location, going through some legal matters and also having a laugh with ourselves. It has engendered a comradeship within the Judiciary and I think it has been good for the Judiciary. So, on that note I have missed my colleagues.

Some members of the Niger State House of Assembly were yesterday tear-gassed by the police in Minna, the state capital, following their attempts to entre the assembly complex forcefully.

A weird drama unfolded, yesterday, at the ever-busy Control Post, close to Maria Assumpta Catholic Cathedral, Owerri, Imo State, as a commercial vehicle driver and his conductor pelted policemen with faeces.

Anguish was the lot of the people of Ulakwo, Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo State, following the death of two sons of the same parents, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Ishiguzo, in a fire disaster that reportedly began from a lit candle stick.

Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has blamed the incessant vandalisation of petroleum pipelines by oil thieves across the country partly on negligence of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.

The historic defeat of Nigeria’s ruling party has generated a blame game that could worsen the prospects of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the immediate future

DELTA State Chairman of Peoples Redemption Party, PRP, Mr Emmanuel Igbini, has called on the national leadership of All Progressives Congress, APC, to invoke the doctrine of necessity in the zoning of national offices.