The National Industrial Court, NIC, sitting in Abuja, yesterday, stopped the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Unions Congress, TUC, from embarking on strike today.

Fresh facts have emerged that herdsmen did not carry out the attack on the people of Nimbo community in Uzo Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State themselves; they reportedly hired mercenaries to do it for them.

Apart from warrant chiefs appointed by the British colonialists mainly for the defunct Eastern House of Chiefs, only very few communities had traditional rulers in Igbo land before the late seventies as the people had various ways of governing themselves. Among such communities included Onitsha, Aro-Chukwu, Nri, Igbo Ukwu, Awka, Awka Etiti and Aguleri.

THE House of Representatives yesterday, ordered its committee on sports to summon the Minister of Youths and Sports, Solomon Dalung and officials of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, in a bid to amicably resolve the crisis rocking the apex football body in Nigeria.

So far, autopsy report on late Ronke Shonde, who was allegedly killed by her husband , Lekan , two weeks ago at their Egbeda residence in Lagos was inconclusive as at yesterday.