Former Super Eagles midfielder Garba Lawal has disagreed with Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh for excluding Watford striker, Odion Ighalo from the 2017 AFCON qualifier with Tanzania on September 5.

Lawal argued that Oliseh should have invited Ighalo to play alongside Anthony Ujah and Emmanuel Emenike

Indications emerged yesterday that the Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Lamorde, might not appear before the Senate to answer questions on the alleged diversion of N1 trillion recovered from the sale of the property of a former governor.

The Department of State Services, DSS, yesterday arraigned the former National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki (retd), for illegal possession of firearms.

Niger Delta activist, Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor, has said that she would not back down on her ultimatum to the Delta State Government to repeal the Delta State Oil Mineral Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC law, recently signed by the state governor, noting that no amount of propaganda would make her to do so.

Stakeholders in the Nigerian laboratory industry have identified wrong use of water as a major factor militating against the quality and reliable laboratory analysis in the country. Speaking in Lagos at a workshop on Laboratory Water Purification Technologies by Merck Group and Katchey Company Ltd, they said use of the wrong type of water contaminates results of lab analyses.

Lagos—An Ikeja High Court has vacated an order of interim injunction restraining the Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode from performing the coronation ceremony of the Ayangburen of Ikorodu, Oba Kabiru Adewale Shotobi.

No fewer than 10 aspirants for Kogi State governorship election, on the platform of All Progressives Congress, APC, are accusing Prince Abubakar Audu of cloning permanent voters cards.

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, yesterday, called for a tripartite partnership between the federal government, the Nigerian private sector organisations and Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, for the nation to witness the desired rapid development.

OWERRI—Imo State Governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, has ordered all his former political appointees to immediately return all government properties that are still in their possession.

The All Progressives Congres-APC, Akwa Ibom State Chapter has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, the Department of State Service, DSS and other agencies to undertake a thorough forensic financial examination of the state’s resources from May 29, 2007 to May 28, 2015.