Lagos—In fulfilment of his electoral promise to public servants in the state, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State paid their salaries on June 21.

lagos—Some 24 hours after four of the 18 robbers that terrorised two banks in Ipakodo area of Ikorodu, a Lagos suburb were paraded, Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode yesterday, presided over the State Security Council meeting with an assurance that progress is being made to round up the remaining members of the robbery gang still on the run.

ASABA—Delta State Commissioner for Energy, Mr Newworld Safugha, has said that enhanced electricity supply in the state was key to driving the programmes and policies of the Governor Ifeanyi Okowa administration.

ASABA—KIDNAPPERS took to their heels, abandoning their victim, a 13-year-old girl, Mordi Ogor, abducted on June 26, when police operatives from Ogwashi-Uku Police Division, Delta State stormed their den at Ubuluku community in the state.

LAGOS — Nigerians woke up, yesterday, with the cheering news that the Federal Government has arranged a bailout for states to enable them pay salaries of workers. It was cheering because the President had earlier told states to find ways of resolving their financial crisis.

Lagos—A 38-year-old tailor, Kehinde Ogunmola, was yesterday sentenced to six years imprisonment for trafficking in illicit drugs by Justice Musa Kurya of a Federal High Court, in Lagos.

BENIN—THE Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, yesterday, described as wicked and barbaric the continuous onslaught on churches and mosques perpetrated by the Boko Haram sect, saying that hell fire was the portion of the perpetrators.

LAGOS—Three young men are currently cooling their heels in one of the dreaded cells of the State criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Panti, Yaba, for allegedly gang-raping a 16-year-old girl (names withheld) at Orile area of Lagos while on her way from school.

PATANI—EXACTLY three weeks after the release of three staff of a construction company working in Patani Local Government Area of Delta State, gunmen on Monday at about 3:45pm, stormed Patani again and abducted a woman at a building site.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has condemned the arrest and detention of the President of Ekiti State Market Women Association, Mrs Waye Oso, by the police on the orders of Governor Ayodele Fayose.