Senator Gbenga Ashafa of Lagos East Senatorial District, has urged other senators elected on the platform of his party, All Progressives Congress, APC to close ranks, settle down to work, having come to terms with the enormity of the task before them.

NIGERIAN Airforce plane, M9 24 gunship has in the past three days been bombarding creeks along the Cross River and Akwa Ibom waterways serving as hideout for sea criminals and kidnappers.

“In this particular case, the prosecution has failed to give the evidence of acceptance of N1million; in the entire trial none of the witnesses brought by the prosecution gave evidence of giving the accused cash,” Adedipe said. The lawyer said the defence had raised plenty doubts in the mind of the court regarding the veracity of the testimony of the EFCC witness, Supo Agbaje, who was earlier declared wanted by the EFCC and subsequently listed as a prosecution witness.

“This sister now cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted on her by our irresponsible use and abuse of the goods with which God has endowed her,” he writes in his long-anticipated Encyclical on the environment.

“ Our goal is to enable the evolution of a digital television ecosystem that not only transforms television and broadcasting in general. “ But also able to help bridge the digital divide, create jobs and grow our national economy,” it said. The statement further assured Nigerians that it would only switch off analogue signals when majority of Nigerians could receive digital signals.

“Mechanised farming will make farm produce to be available in large quantities even in their off seasons and the prices will not be ridiculously expensive,” he said. In addition, Alhaji Mohammed Tijani, a beans seller, attributed the increase in the price of beans to the ongoing planting season, and increased demand for the item because of Ramadan.

Police released new images Thursday of the man suspected of killing nine people in a shooting at a historic black US church. Initial security camera footage released by authorities in Charleston, South Carolina shows a slender young white man with dark blond or brown hair in a distinctive bowl-type haircut and wearing a grey sweater.

CHAIRMAN, Chairman of Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, Engr. Elias Mbam said yesterday that report on the N8.64 billion wardrobe allowance for Senators and Members of the House of Representatives as being over exaggerated.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has charged the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Presidency to stop making mockery of governance with premature celebration of imaginary achievements except if the intention is to set up President Muhammadu Buhari for national and international ridicule.

SENATE President, Bukola Saraki, has reiterated the commitment of the Senate towards conclusive passage of the Petroleum Industry Bills, PIB. But he said the present Senate will rather engage in what he called “intensive dialogue” that will address the bottleneck which made the bill recalcitrant.

The Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III on Wednesday announced the sighting of the new month of Ramadan, 1436AH. Consequently, Abubakar directed the Muslim Ummah in Nigeria to commence the Ramadan fast on Thursday, June 18 which is equivalent to the Ramadan 1, 1436 AH.

“Failure of women to sanitise properly when producing milk, failure to sterilize equipment properly, and improper or prolonged storage and transportation of milk can also expose consumers to bacterial food-borne illnesses. “While many online mums claim they have been tested for viruses during pregnancy, many do not realise that such screening needs to be undertaken regularly,”

A white gunman was on the run Thursday after fatally shooting at least nine worshippers in a historic black church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina in what police called a hate crime. Churchgoers had gathered for a prayer meeting in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Wednesday evening when the shooter walked in and opened fire, Charleston Police Chief Gregory Mullen said.

Chad’s military said Thursday it had carried out airstrikes on Boko Haram positions in neighbouring Nigeria to avenge twin suicide bombings in Chad’s capital that were blamed on the jihadists. Citing the “cowardly and barbaric acts perpetrated by Boko Haram terrorists”, which killed 33 people in N’Djamena on Monday, the military said that it had “carried out reprisal airstrikes on the terrorists’ positions in Nigerian territory” on Wednesday.

Police in Charleston, South Carolina released images Thursday of the man suspected of killing nine people in a shooting at a historic black church.