Lagos—Justice Ibrahim Buba of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, sentenced nine foreign citizens to five years imprisonment each after convicting them for stealing 3,423,097 metric tons of crude oil from Nigeria.

Twenty one players have so far reported to the Super Eagles training camp in Abuja ahead of next month’s CHAN in Rwanda, officials have said. And the players have started training, under the supervision of assistant coach, Salisu Yusuf and goalkeeper trainer, Alloy Agu.

Lagos—Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State yesterday assured Lagosians of his determination to judiciously utilize the resources garnered from the people for the overall well-being of the State Ambode restated his commitment at the ninth Town Hall Meeting on Security put together by the Lagos State Security Trust Fund, LSSTF, with the theme: “Refreshing Our Security Model”.

With the liberalization of the Nigeria’s telecom sector in 2001, the country’s communication landscape came alive, closing the wide gap between Nigeria and the rest of the world.

AHEAD of the 2016 governorship election in Edo State, a governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr. Casley Omon- Irabor, has warned that his party would be thrown into a terrible crisis if Governor Adams Oshiomhole goes ahead to support a particular aspirant at the expense of free and fair governorship primaries.

As we know, the very concept of corruption in Nigeria is contested. I’m surprised no one has thought of making “yam and goat” t-shirts or bumper stickers. I recently read an article by Susan Rose-Ackerman, an American political scientist in which she writes that to defeat corruption, one must analyse and understand the link between state and society in a given country.

GOVERNOR Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, in this encounter, bares his mind on the setting up of a military panel headed by Maj-Gen Adeniyi Oyebade to look into the roles of the military in the June 21 governorship election in Ekiti among other burning national issues

The Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, worldwide, yesterday, condemned the alleged manhandling of the former Director-General of NIMASA, Dr. Patrick Akpobolokemi, by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, at the premises of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos.

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, yesterday, said that the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, was at the vanguard of preparing Nigeria’s youths, who will guarantee better future for the country.

Nigeria Premier League champions Enyimba have begun discussions to re-engage Eagles assistant coach Salisu Yusuf ahead of next year’s tilt at the CAF Champions League, it has been exclusively learnt.