Police in Delta State have arrested a woman, who allegedly killed a commercial motorcyclist and kept his decomposing corpse in her room for nine days.

Lagos State government has vowed to ensure those behind the collapse of a high rise building at Lekki, which killed no fewer than 35 persons, were brought to justice.

Sources told Vanguard yesterday that those already arrested in connection with the disaster were doing everything possible to escape justice.

MEMBERS of Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, the apex body of the Urhobo ethnic nationality, led by its National Secretary, Albert Akpomudje, SAN, and the president of the Youth Wing, Ovie Anthony, along with the Women’s Wing, yesterday, stormed a Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayalse State, in solidarity with their own, Miss Ese Oruru, at the resumed trial of her alleged abductor, Dahiru Yunusa, aka Yellow.

THE Edo state governorship election slated for September 10, 2016 presents both an opportunity and a challenge to reposition a state with the sobriquet Heart Beat of the Nation. Getting it right starts from the party primaries especially that of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state. For a party that held sway from May 29, 1999 to November 12, 2008 and suddenly found itself in opposition in the state, there is a compelling reason to get it right owing to the wobbly performance of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state.

THE Crown Prince of Issele-Uku (Oligbo Kingdom), in Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State, HRH NdukaEzeagwuna, has indicated his intention to ascend the throne of the ancient kingdom and fulfill the age-long rites of his people by assuming his rightful position as the Monarch of Issele-Uku.

Environmental rights advocacy group in Nigeria, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, ERA/FoEN, yesterday claimed that over 18 million Lagos residents had no daily access to clean and safe water, warning it might expose residents to water-borne diseases.

The National Judicial Council, NJC, yesterday, sacked Justice O. Gbajabiamila of Lagos State High Court and Justice Idris M. J. Evuti of the Niger State High Court for judicial misconduct.

ABUJA—The prosecution witness against Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and Economic and Financial Commission’s operative, Mr. Michael Wetcas, yesterday disowned the documents tendered against him, saying most of the petitions were filed in 2012, while his investigating team was constituted in 2014.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, said the solution to security challenges across Africa lay within the continent because it was well placed to provide innovative solutions.

ABUJA — Barely three weeks after the Police Service Commission, PSC, opened the portal for applications for 10,000 vacancies approved by the Federal Government, the commission has received 705,352 applications.

Air Commodore Salisu Abdullahi Yushau, retd, the star witness in the ongoing trial of the former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, yesterday, admitted that he made conflicting statements against the defendant.

Two children and eight other passengers were Monday night burnt to death as 12 others suffer severe burns after a saloon car and commercial bus collided and burst into flames at Iyana Yafin, Badagry Local Government, Lagos State.

SOME of the 36 states of the federation that failed to remit taxes to the Federal Government in the past five years may face stiff sanctions, including forfeiture of their monthly federation allocations.

Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo of an Ikeja High Court, yesterday remanded the two engineers that constructed the collapsed seven-story guest house of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) in prisons.

Fuel scarcity may last a long time as marketers have stopped importation due to a $1 billion debt burden.