DELTA State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, signed the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC Amendment bill into law, yesterday, after the cause of disagreement was resolved with oil communities.
 

“For now, I got an album on my agenda. The album titled ‘Return of the Gods’ will drop in September. That’s going to be taking up a greater part of my time, and right now, it’s what I’m focused on.”

A man known for dressing up in a Batman superhero costume to cheer up sick children in hospital was struck and killed on a US highway after his “Batmobile” broke down, reports said. Lenny Robinson, 51, had got out of his Lamborghini, customized to resemble the Caped Crusader’s “Batmobile”, on an unlit stretch of highway in Maryland Sunday night to check the engine when it was struck by another vehicle, slamming the car into him.

The police on Monday arraigned an 81-year-old hunter, Orija Joseph in an Ado-Ekiti Magistrates’ Court for allegedly killing his colleague by accident.

Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Ghali Na’abba, says many Nigerian politicians are “highly irresponsible’’.

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) said on Monday it had taken steps to restructure its marketing department to meet the vision of the current leadership of the football house.

The Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities (JONAPWD) on Tuesday appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to consider their members for cabinet appointment.

A human rights group under the aegis of Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State CSCEO has thrown its weight behind the petition submitted to the anti-graft body, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC by the national publicity secretary of pan-yoruba cultural group, Afenifere Mr Yinka Odumakin, detailing the allegations of financial mismanagement and corruption against Mr.Aregbesola.

Hadi Juraid, Transport Ministry Spokesman, said search and rescue teams on Tuesday found all 54 bodies in the wreckage of a plane that crashed at the weekend in Indonesia’s Papua province.

The Recovery committee of the Bauchi State government said that it has recovered seven plots of lands illegally allocated to individuals by the immediate past administration.