A 50-year-old man, Salisu Adamu, has been charged before an Oshodi Magistrate’s Court in Lagos, for allegedly assaulting a police officer, Sgt. Apeh Matthew.

Chairmen of the state chapters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have thrown their weight behind President Muhammadu Buhari and the national chairman of the party, Chief John Oyegun for accepting the outcome of the national assembly leadership election.

Aggrieved contractors and workers at the Sedco Road Yard of Bredero Pipelines, an oil servicing firm, in Uvwie Local Government Area, Delta State, have blamed the death of two colleagues on hardship caused by prolonged withholding of their salaries and entitlements by the company.

legal adviser to the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, ALGON, Edo State chapter and Chairman of Ovia North- East Local Government Area, Mrs. Lucy Omagbon, yesterday issued seven days ultimatum to the state chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Dan Orbih, to tender an apology over what she described as his libellous and misleading allegation against the state governor, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, over alleged collection of money meant for the councils, or resign his position as chairman of the opposition party.

ABIA State council of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Accountant-General of the state, Mr. Gabriel Onyendilefu, are at logger-heads over the salary arrears being owed workers.

A commercial bus driver, identified as Patrick Abaleke, has been arrested for allegedly duping one Ms Chinasa Nwokenem, his neighbour, of N1.5 million.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, is the new ruling party in Nigeria, right? Yes and no. Yes, because it is the party that defeated the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at the 2015 general elections, winning the Presidency and installing governors in 22 of the 36 states of the federation. It is the party with majority of members in both the Senate and House of Representatives. It will consummate the mandate of the electorate and call the shots for the next four years.

In 1966 late Prof. Chinua Achebe wrote his third novel, a political satire. It was a literary piece that extensively and exhaustively chronicled/pictured post-colonial Nigeria in all her rot, rust and ruins.

Owerri—Ebuka Ibe and Kelechi Nwogu both 22, have confessed that they kidnapped Chukwuma Nzeribe and Chigozie Nzeribe of the same parent while returning from school at Amazu, Amato in Orsu Local Government Area, for financial benefits. The suspects confessed to the crime at the Police Headquarters, Owerri, Imo State, when they were paraded by the state Police Commissioner, Mr. Austin Evbakhavbokun for child stealing and trafficking.

The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Joseph Ahaneku, set up the committee to provide a platform by which researches done in the university can impact the society, particularly communities around us. The university does research and teaching but a lot of the research is lost on book shelves and libraries and society does not benefit from it.