Tension has gripped Ekiti state, as armed policemen from Abuja last night invaded the State to arrest Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, leaders, top government officials and 11 members of the State House of Assembly with the allegation of stockpiling arms during the June 21, 2014 governorship election.

Lagos—A 76-year-old man, John Orimogunje, who allegedly presented himself as a land speculator and obtained the sum of N8 million from two women, was yesterday arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court in Lagos.

A Lagos State High Court sitting in Igbosere has adjourned till April 7, to hear the N800 million suit slammed against popular Lagos cleric, Paul Adefarasin and his church, House on the Rock by a businessman, Gerald Chukwueke.

AT least 200 residents of lasamaja area of Lagos and environs have benefitted from a medical outreach organised by Rotary Club of Nigeria, District 401, and facilitated by a Counsellor Aspirant for Ward F2, under under Ademologu zone, Ilasamaja, Hon. Diyaolu Adeola Olaolu.

ABUJA—Stakeholders in the electricity distribution chain, yesterday, declared that the country required $40 billion to attain the target of 20,000 mega watts of electricity generation by 2020.

An estimated 10,000 local hunters from the North-East of Nigeria gathered recently in Adamawa State for their annual oath-taking festival, known as Salala in the local parlance.

The United States, yesterday, said that the Federal Government should implement a flexible exchange rate policy that ensures a more realistic value of the naira, adding that the current exchange rate policy involving foreign exchange restrictions hinders the domestic economy.

FORMER national chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, and the party’s candidate in the indefinitely postponed Anambra Central senatorial re-run election, Chief Victor Umeh has said that the attempt by his opponents to use the judiciary to frustrate the re-run election ordered by the Appeal Court in December last year would be an exercise in futility.

Governor of Enugu State,Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi,yesterday, doled out N8.5 million as compensation to farmers of Ugwuleshi community in Awgu Local Government Area of the state where Fulani herdsmen had on March 15, destroyed farmlands and livestocks worth millions of Naira.

A House of Representatives member, Mr Daniel Reyenieju, has expressed disappointment over what he described as selective and biased method currently adopted in the administration of the Office of the Federal Government’s amnesty programme for former agitators in the Niger Delta region.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, released more results of the last re-run elections in Rivers State.

MINISTER of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, yesterday, said the ongoing fuel scarcity in the country would permanently come to an end by the second week of April.

ABUJA—The Board of Trustees, BoT, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday insisted that the national chairman, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, and members of the National Working Committee, NWC, must leave office in May as approved by the various organs of the party.

A magistrate’s court sitting in Kano, yesterday, remanded a 55-year-old labourer, Mu’azu Abdullahi, in prison custody for allegedly raping his 16-year-old daughter.

AS Pfizer Nigeria relaunches its brand image of creating adequate awareness and differentiation based on its strong heritage of quality, efficacy and safety, the company has decried the increasing burden of cardiovascular disease in the country.