Presidency yesterday stated that President Mohammdu Buhari during his campaign never made specific promises of what to achieve within his first 100 days in office.

Osogbo—The contest for the Ooni stool has taken a dangerous dimension as a prominent figure of the Giesi ruling house, Prince Adekanye Aderibigbe, yesterday alleged threat to his life over his insistence that only a credible and a true prince from the ruling house would be presented to the kingmakers for confirmation.

Nigeria’s Billionaire, Oluwo Antonio Deinde Fernandez is dead, aged 79 years.

ABUJA — AS reactions continue to trail the appointments made so far by President Muhammadu Buhari since assumption of office, senators and members of the House of Representatives from the North-East geo-political zone have thrown their weight behind the president’s action.

The attack on a team of policemen in Owutu area of Ikorodu, Lagos, in the early hours of Monday, during which three policemen were shot dead and others injured, was said to have been carried out by militants-turned vandals.

Osogbo—Osun State House of Assembly has assured that the relief package given to the state would be judiciously administered, saying genuine workers would soon have their outstanding salaries defrayed, while the work-in-progress of public infrastructure would not be left unattended to.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way”.

YENAGOA—OFFICIALS of United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, and other stakeholders in the protection of the rights of the child were shocked, yesterday, to hear of the case of a 40-year-old man that raped a four-year-old girl to death in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

Patrick Olusegun Odegbami is set to announce that he will stand in next year’s election to replace Joseph Sepp Blatter as President of World soccer-governing body, FIFA.

ABUJA—Nigerian troops, yesterday, liberated and re-took Gamboru Ngala, the strategic neighbouring town to Cameroon and Niger after a fierce battle.

Ado-Ekiti—The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State has called on Governor Ayodele Fayose to explain his application for N9.6b loan as part of the special Federal Government facility for states facing salary payment burden.

UYO—Over 40 girls from the 36 states of Nigeria seeking to be crowned the coveted Miss Akwa-Ibom Tourism Queen, have been admitted to camp for the one-week pageant which the grand finale holds on September 4, 2015.

Lagos—Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, Lagos State yesterday, called on members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, ICAN, to support the ongoing anti-corruption efforts of President Muhammadu Buhari.

LAGOS—A 45-year-old driver, Ganiyu Afolabi, was yesterday charged before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court in Lagos for allegedly defiling and impregnating a 16-year-old girl.

ABEOKUTA—The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate in April 11 governorship election in Ogun State, Prince Gboyega Isiaka yesterday, closed their case at the ongoing governorship tribunal in the state after tendering over 4, 000 evidences before the court and having called nine witnesses.