Leaders of Okun Youths numbering about 100 gathered in Kabba, Wednesday, to drum support for the Governor-Elect of the state, Alh. Yahaya Bello, even as they decry the marginalisation of Okun people in the State Public Service.

The baby of a French woman of Syrian origin died on a Turkish plane while his mother was being deported to France from Turkey over suspected ties to the Islamic State (IS) group, diplomatic sources said Thursday. Five-month-old Muhammed al-Amin Mahiev died of heart failure while travelling with his mother Iman Mahiev on an internal Turkish Airlines flight from the southeastern city of Gaziantep to Istanbul, a diplomatic source in Turkey told AFP.

But nothing has been heard from him since he was arrested with his wife on December 13, fuelling fears about his health and the potential for a new security threat Nigeria could do without. Human Rights Watch have claimed soldiers killed “at least 300” IMN members in the raid in the ancient city of Zaria, in the northern state of Kaduna that began the previous day.

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Kogi State and former Senatorial candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, Mr. Adewale Abel has implored the Deputy Governor-Elect, Hon. James Abiodun Faleke to accept his new status in the interest of the Okun people.

The Vice-Chancellor, University of Ilorin, Prof. AbdulGaniyu Ambali, says the university will soon start the importation of goats for large scale milk production at the institution.