Two persons were killed and several others injured during a bloody clash between members of a vigilante group and social miscreants, otherwise known as area boys, in the densely populated Ajegunle area of Lagos, Tuesday night.

The family of the detained Senior Special Assistant to the Senate President on Youth and Students Matters, Barr. Ikenga Ugochinyere, said he has not eaten any food since his arrest three days ago.

Ogun State Police Command, yesterday, paraded a dismissed police officer, George Oliseh, for disguising himself as a Superintendent of Police and being in possession of 10 bags of weed suspected to be Indian hemp.

MANUFACTURERS Association of Nigeria, MAN, is heading to the National Assembly to influence speedy passage of seven bills into law by legislative arm of the government.
This is to spur competitiveness of the manufacturing sector.

THE Ebonyi State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA yesterday said it has arrested 43 males and 4 females over drug peddling and other drug related offenses within the first quarter of 2016 in the state.

WITH a view to resolving the over eight-year crisis between Ezza and Ezillo communities in Ishielu local government area of the state in which over 100 persons lost their lives, Ebonyi State government yesterday begun a field tracing on the disputed land.

Condemnations, yesterday, trailed the elongation of the tenure of the 30 transition caretaker committee chairmen in Anambra State.

The protracted crisis in All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, has taken a turn for the worse following the suspension of some members of the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party.

ABIA State Council of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has cried out against what it called “over taxation” by the Abia State Government, saying that the government’s new tax policy would further impoverish the workers.

Delta State Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Edwin Uzor, yesterday, said that the party would not lose sleep over the planned merger of Labour Party, LP, All Progressives Congress, APC, and other opposition parties in the state against it, describing same as an empty threat.