ENUGU—The Enugu State Police command,yesterday, arrested a 35-year-old,Nneka Ifeoze, who allegedly burnt her nine years old housemaid’s buttock with a hot electric iron for eating the food meant for her two years old baby boy.

THE much anticipated merger of Labour Party, LP and the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta State, weekend, suffered a setback with the state Chairman of LP, Chief Tony Ezeagwu, dissociating himself from the merger talks between the two major political parties in the state.

THERE are indications that the leadership of the APC in Edo State will intensify the peace moves geared towards mending fences between Governor Adams Oshiomhole and his deputy Dr Pius Odubu.

The number of retail e-commerce transactions taking place through smartphones in Nigeria spiked by 73 per cent within the first quarter of 2016.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said he was yet to be convinced that the vast majority of ordinary Nigerians would derive any tangible benefit from devaluation of the Naira. The president said this at a meeting with members of the Council of Retired Federal Permanent Secretaries in Abuja. He said that he still held the conviction which motivated his principled resistance to devaluation in his first tenure as head of state.

ABUJA — The current scarcity of foreign exchange confronting the country is being turned into an advantage through the local production of goods for which hard currencies were hitherto wasted.

Of all the Issues that have threatened the stability of this country- religion, ethnicity – there has been none as virulent as oil. This threat has been potentiated by the manner in which this product has been administered and mismanaged.

FOLLOWING a threat by the Catholic Church of Ekiti Diocese to seek legal redress over education levy, the Ekiti State government says there is no going back on the N1, 000 and N500 levy being paid by private and public primary and secondary schools respectively in the state.

Operators of outdoor advertising business in Nigeria say their survival is under threat if government fails to come to their aid, as they accuse the Lagos State government of owing them over N1 billion.

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was, over the weekend, declared winner of the local government area elections by the Ondo state Independent Electoral Commission, winning all the 18 council seats.

ABUJA— AHEAD of theMay 21 National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, former Deputy National Chairman of the party and other stakeholders from the South-West said, yesterday, that failure to give the position of the national chairman of the party to the zone was a clear indication that the opposition party hated the people of Yoruba race.

DAKAR, Senegal — The military campaign by Nigeria and neighbouring nations to combat the West African militant group, Boko Haram, has been hampered by a failure among those countries to share crucial intelligence, sometimes even within their own security services, American and other Western officials say.

Dr. Joseph Wayas served as Senate President twice in the Second Republic when he brought flair and fashion to his political carriage. Wayas, 74 and obviously weighed down by age is rarely seen on the political terrain these days, preferring to play the role of a statesman in the backstage.

WARRI—TWO hoodlums were yesterday afternoon burnt dead by angry mob in Okumagba Layout, Warri, Delta state.

A popular native doctor, Chief Onupka Nwite was weekend reportedly murdered by suspected cultists in his shrine in Ndulo Ukwuagba Ngbo, Ohaukwu local government area of Ebonyi state.