Leader of Nigeria’s high flying music crew, MAVIN’s Don Jazzy is one individual who has contributed in no small measure to the growth of the music industry in Nigeria. Over a year ago, the likes of Korede Bello, Reekado Banks and Dija were greenhorns in the industry until Don Dorobucci gave them the track to run their own races. Today, they have grown to become stars in their own right, thanks to Don Jazzy’s masterstroke.

PORT HARCOURT—There was pandemonium, yesterday, at the Rivers State Secretariat following the mysterious appearance of a rabbit.

LAGOS—Barely 48 hours after a police officer attached to Safer High Way Patrol committed suicide at the Nigerian Police Training School, Ikeja, Lagos, a yet-to-be identified man has hung himself on a mango tree in Amuwo Odofin area of the state.

ABUJA—THE House of Representatives, yesterday, adjourned abruptly as a result of a stench within the premises which made the environment not conducive as well as lack of water to take care of the conveniences.

Uyo—A 50-year-old man, identified as Okon Michael, has said that he raped a two-year-old girl while under the influence of an evil spirit.

The Alake and Paramount Ruler of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo, yesterday, narrated how he survived dethronement by the administration of former Governor Gbenga Daniel.

Ibadan—Three Fulani men were, yesterday, paraded along with other suspects for armed robbery by the Oyo State Police command.

By Solomon Nwoke Reactions have trailed the President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointment of Barrister Solomon Dalong as the new Sports Minister. In his remarks yesterday, President of the African Sports Journalists Union (ASJU), Mitchel Obi captured Buhari’s appointment as ‘going forward in the reverse’. He said, “the president has made his choice of minister  and we […]

NEWLY sworn-in ministers, yesterday, on their first day in office, unveiled the measures they would adopt to drive and actualise President Muhammadu Buhari’s change agenda.

Lagos — Justice Ibrahim Buba of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos yesterday fixed November 18, 2015 to rule on the fundamental human rights case filed by Mr. Buruji Kashamu against the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA and the Attorney General of the Federation.

Maiduguri—Major-General Yushau Abubakar, Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, says the military will capture Sambisa forest, den of the Boko Haram terrorists, before the December presidential deadline.

Former governor of Lagos State and leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has eulogised Governor Nasir El Rufai of Kaduna state for what he said were the great things he was doing for Kaduna state, and joked that El Rufai was no longer, “an accidental public servant”

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, yesterday, said that he will take all the files containing alleged fraud perpetrated during the tenure of former governor of the state, Chief Lucky Igbinedion, to Abuja next week to commence prosecution.

Governor Idris Wada and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has warned that a vote for former the All Progressives Congress, (APC) candidate, Abubakar Audu will be a vote for divisiveness and ethnic jingoism which will not augur well for the unity of Kogi people.

LAGOS—OFFICERS of Edo State Police Command are investigating a sergeant, Umoru Babalola, who allegedly raped a nine-old-girl (names withheld).