MAKURDI—Barely a week after a four-year-old boy was burnt to death in a communal crisis between settlers and indigenous people of Akumba village in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State, the crisis escalated early Sunday morning with the burning of over 200 houses and huts in the community.

There were indications, yesterday, that late Aishat Noble Mustapha, the Silverbird staff, was allegedly murdered by her boyfriend.

The Federal Government yesterday, expressed optimism that the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, will be passed before the end of the current political dispensation which terminates by May 29.

Chief executives of the world’s leading satellite operators met recently at the Satellite 2015 Conference in Washington, USA, to announce that henceforth, they will work with a common voice to detect the future of satellite communications. The world’s only CEO-driven satellite organisation also known as ESOA, is expanding to include satellite operators from the ITU’s region 1, namely Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Commonwealth of Independent States, CIS.

Jos—NO fewer than nine people were feared dead in a village in Foron district of Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State, yesterday, as suspected cattle rustlers struck.

LAGOS—The All Progressives Congress, APC, has asked a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, to join it in the suit by Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN, against the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in which it, UPN, is seeking to have the electoral commission list its presidential candidate and other candidates for the March 28 and April 11 general elections.

IBADAN—A 25-year-old pregnant woman, Mrs Saki Adediran, who allegedly specializes in selling human parts, was among scores of suspected dare-devil robbers, vandals and rapists paraded by Oyo State Police Command, yesterday.

A father of two, identified as Christopher Ezekiel, is currently being investigated by the Lagos State Police over the alleged death of his Facebook lover, named Adekemi Faboro.

Ahead of the 2015 general elections, Mr. Ben Murray-Bruce, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, senatorial candidate for Brass-East senatorial district, Bayelsa State, has said that he will raise about $1 billion to provide uninterrupted electricity in his constituency and meet other needs of the masses.

The Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria, NPAN, yesterday, insisted that elections must hold in the country on March 28 and April 11 this year, as scheduled by the Independent National Electoral Commission.