A member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Board of Trustee, Chief Clement Awoyelu has declared that Governor Ayodele Fayose has lost grip of the party in the state.

Spokesperson of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, yesterday again broke down in court with signs of ill-health, repeatedly throwing up at the Federal High Court in Abuja, where he is being tried for alleged corruption.

THERE was a mild drama in Akure, the Ondo State capital, when a self- acclaimed pastor with one of the Pentecostal churches, was arrested for allegedly hawking fetish items.

The Lagos State Police will today, arraign Lekan Shonde , the dockworker who allegedly killed his wife during a scuffle at their Egbeda residence in Lagos two weeks ago, to court.

THE federal government has said its decision to partially deregulate the downstream sector of the petroleum sector would enhance its school feeding programme.

Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, Acting Director Army Public Relations, has confirmed the reascue of another Chibok girl, Serah Luka, aside Amina Ali who was rescued on Tuesday.

THE South East Zone of the All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, said the rescue of one of the 219 Chibok school girls who were abducted in 2014 has laid to rest claims by the then President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration that the abduction was a scam.

Nigeria is losing about N2.79 billion daily following the closure of ExxonMobil operated Qua Iboe terminal, whose workers were evacuated yesterday

A slogan of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) says: “Police is Your Friend”. Police, indeed, are friends of the citizenry, because they are the ones everybody looks for when confronted with threats to life and property.

THE Federal Government, yesterday, raised talarm over imminent drying up of River Niger due to climate change and dumping of industrial waste.

COUNSEL to Chief James Onanefe Ibori, yesterday, said there might be no fair trial in the confiscation hearing of James Ibori due to start in June at a Southwark Crown Court in London.

THE Delta State Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has called on workers in the state to remain calm and support all effort by the Federal Government and Congress in ensuring that the dynamics of liberalization of the downstream sector provide long-term solution to the problems plaguing the sector.

FEDERAL Government, yesterday, released names of its members of the technical committee to work with organised labour on the agreement it reached with the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, and Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on palliatives, following the hike of pump price of petrol to N145 per litre.

AN Estate Manager, Mr. Useni Umar, yesterday, told a Federal High Court in Abuja that he got N15million from the former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh as an appreciation gift.

WIFE of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, has donated five trucks of assorted relief materials to Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, and victims of insurgency in Borno State.