Abuja— THE Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, said, last night, that he was not at war with President Muhammadu Buhari or any agency of government over the purported non-compliance with court orders freeing suspects of the arms scandal who were granted bail by judges.

The General Overseer of Bethel House of God Mission, Awkunanaw, Enugu, Enugu State, Bishop Amaechi Agbo has advised the Federal Government to release the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu without further delay, to avoid throwing the nation into an unmanageable crisis.

CRISIS is brewing in Edo State All Progressives Congress, APC, following the suspension of the state Vice Chairman and Senatorial Leader in Edo South, Mr. Gentleman Amego, over alleged anti-party activities.

Immediate past chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Victor Umeh has said, the party did not collect a single kobo to support the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the last presidential election, noting that the support was essentially ideological.

FOR several decades now, the Nigerian education sector has witnessed a steady decline, and stakeholders fear that the trend will continue if nothing is done to arrest the situation. Speaking at the end of year dinner of Urhobo College Old Students Association in Lagos, a Professor of Law, Joseph Abugu from the University of Lagos, listed the challenges facing primary and secondary education in Nigeria and proffered some solutions.

The Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFUND, Professor Suleiman Bogoro, has stated that the fund will concentrate on both infrastructural and programme developments to place Nigerian tertiary institutions on the same pedestal with other institutions globally.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has presented Obaisi Ovie Omo-Agege of the Labour Party, LP, a certificate of return following his declaration as winner of the 2015 election in Delta Central senatorial district by the Court of Appeal, Benin, Edo State.

Nigeria international Kenneth Omeruo has declared he has not given up hope he will still play for English Premier League champions Chelsea.

As the Super Eagles prepare to storm Rwanda for the CAF African Nations Championship, Nigeria Football Federation technical committee chairman, Felix Anyasi-Agwu said the team can go all the way to the final.

A Mapo customary court, Ibadan, yesterday, dissolved a seven-year-old marriage between Iyabo and her husband, Dare Adeyemo, over hooliganism, threat to life and infidelity.

An unidentified robbery suspect met his waterloo yesterday while three of his gang members escaped, when their victim allegedly knocked him down

LAGOS—Five suspected pipeline vandals, said to be on the wanted list of the Joint Task Force on Anti-Pipeline Vandalism, have been arrested with two dane guns, 23 live cartridges and 23 vehicles used to transport siphoned products recovered from them.

OGHARA—MEMBERS of an Oghara-based vigilance group in Ethiope West Local Government Area, Delta State, tracking a group of kidnappers have shot two rubber tappers, Messrs Raymond Dowe and Happy, working for a contract staff of Pamol Rubber Company.

COALITION for Civil Societies for Credible Election, CCSCE, has condemned what it called “the spate of controversial, incoherent and varying judgments coming from the Court of Appeal,” noting that the trend was “worrisome and disturbing.”

Financial services provider, Ecobank, recently launched MyMall, an online trading platform to empower over 62 Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) operators already enlisted on the platform.