Lagos—Three men were yesterday arraigned before an Apapa Chief Magistrate’s Court for allegedly damaging and stealing vehicle parts worth N2.5million. The suspects include Mayowa Bankole, 26, Adewale Michael, 23 and Abraham Ndame, 27.

Ibadan—Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftains gathered in the Oyo State capital, Ibadan, yesterday with a resolve to get to the root of what actually led to its defeat in the last elections.

FOllowing last Wednesday’s boat mishap which led to the death of six school children along the Irewe water-ways, in the Ojo area of Lagos State, investigation by the Lagos State Waterways Authority, LASWA , revealed that all passengers onboard the canoe did not have life jackets on. The Managing Director, LASWA, Yinka Marinho, said incident report gotten at 8.30am on that fateful day stated that the accident involved a motorized boat (Fibre boat) which crashed into a non-motorized canoe heading towards Irewe locality along the Ojo axis of Lagos State.

Suspected cultists numbering over 50 in the early hours of yesterday, attacked Gaadi village on the outskirt of Makurdi town razing several houses.

Borno State police command said yesterday two suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers attacked the Sabon Gari village market in Damboa local government area, killing five persons, including the suspects, and injuring five others.

Aba— Tragedy struck in Aba, Abia State, yesterday, as kidnappers killed a woman a few days after she was abducted, and dumped her corpse in a bush.

Lagos—The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has asked a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, to discharge the ex-parte order restraining it from implementing the new electricity tariff scheduled to take effect from June 1.

ABEOKUTA—Ogun State Police command has warned its officers against bribery and any other corrupt practices, saying, that a website created by the Inspector General of Police was meant for complaints against any erring police officer.

We are pained that those our father employed to protect and take care of him…later ganged-up to kill him just because of his car which they could have taken and spared the old man…”. These were the words of Adeseni, the third child of the former Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA, Prof. Albert Ilemobade, uttered in anguish while reacting to the gruesome murder of his 78-year-old father by his two domestic staff- the security guard, Daniel Ita, a security guard and Olayemi Bamitale, his former driver.

Cocoa farming presents one of the best investment opportunities in agribusiness. The cocoa plant is a small, evergreen tree that grows exclusively in the deep tropical regions of the world. A cocoa tree usually matures and begins to bear fruit (pods) when it is about four or five years old. On the average, a single cocoa tree produces between 20 and 30 pods at a time. Each pod contains about 20 to 50 seeds, known as cocoa beans. These beans are the goldmine of the cocoa plant because they are processed into cocoa liquor, cocoa butter, cocoa powder, and chocolate.