Former governor of old Bendel State, Dr Samuel Ogbemudia, will on July 4, commence the search for a successor to Edo State governor, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, with the launch of Edo Mass Movement.

Many bank customers in Makurdi on Monday besieged their banks to collect their Bank Verification Number (BVN) a week to the deadline of the exercise.

The BVN is for biometric registration of all bank customers in the country.

Civil servants in Awka have agreed with the Head of Service of the Federation, Mr Danladi Kifasi’s submission that some of them squandered their salaries on non-essentials.

Doctors at a private hospital in Ajah area of Lagos State are battling to save the lives of three residents of Alabeko Estate, who were attacked, weekend, by thugs.

Operatives of the Homicide sections of Force Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, FCIID, Alagbon, Lagos, is currently investigating the alleged kidnap and murder of the son of a Customs officer.

Former North American Bureau Chief of The Guardian, Laolu Akande, has resumed as the spokesman of the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.

Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State has expressed regret over his inability to pay salaries for months now.

He however added that contrary to reports, he was not helpless about the unpaid salaries of civil servants in his state because he has Allah.
Delivering a Ramadan Lecture at the Women Development Centre, Abuja, the governor used the occasion to debunk reports that he ever said he was ‘helpless’.

Ghana superstar Asamoah Gyan has stated that John Obi Mikel will ‘definitely’ be switching to United Arab Emirates side Al Ain this summer, with the midfielder having been linked heavily with a transfer away from Chelsea.

A Lagos High Court in Ikeja yesterday, dismissed the N25.7 billion criminal charge preferred against the former Managing Director of Bank PHB, Mr. Francis Atuche, and others.

Former Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology Akure FUTA, Prof Albert Ilemobade was yesterday abducted by gunmen.

The Prophet (s.a.w) was reported by Anas to have said: “eat something for sahur even if it is a date. For there is in it barakah.” (Al-Bukhari and Muslim) Isn’t it great that Allah is rewarding us for eating?

On his first day at the Aso Rock Villa since his inauguration on May 29, President Muhammadu Buhari said, yesterday, that he inherited a “virtually empty treasury”, from his predecessor, Dr Goodluck Jonathan with debts running into hundreds of millions of dollars. The President disclosed this on a day he ordered the withdrawal of the military from internal security operations as part of a comprehensive review of national security operations.

The organised private sector has thrown its weight behind the call on the Federal Government to remove fuel subsidy.

To ensure a rancour free plenary today on the floors of both chambers of the National Assembly, the national chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Oyegun may have brokered peace between warring camps of the senate president, Dr. Bukola Saraki and senator Ahmed Lawan.

Senator Danjuma La’ah, representing Southern Kaduna Senatorial Zone, yesterday decried what he described as lack of action by the federal and Kaduna State governments over the murder of 13 natives of the area by gunmen in three villages earlier this month.