Senator Magnus Abe, All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate for Rivers South East senatorial district, Rivers State in the yet to be concluded legislative re-run election, has commended the Ogoni people for the rousing reception given to President Muhammadu Buhari, represented by the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo and other members of the presidential delegation that came for the launch of the cleanup of Ogoni land and other oil impacted communities in the Niger Delta at Bodo town in Gokana Local Government Area of the state.

Following report of the death of two pensioners on Monday, while undergoing verification exercise at the Samson Siasia Sports Complex, Yenagoa, the Director of Bayelsa Ambulance Medical Services, Dr Cynthia Bosbini, has described the report as false.

Days after Igbos, and indeed many Nigerians, continue to lament and condemn the unfortunate killings at the popular Nkpor Junction in Idemili North Local Government Area, near the commercial city of Onitsha in Anambra State on Monday, May 30, 2016 during the remembrance day of Biafran heroes and heroines who died during the 1967 civil war. It has, however, emerged that this was the second of a major blood spill at Nkpor Junction which is an intersection of roads linking Onitsha, Obosi, Umuoji, Ogidi and the expressway leading to Awka and Enugu.

A traditional ruler of Temidire community in Agbado Oke-Odo Local Government Area, Lagos State, Chief Nojeem Abioye, was yesterday ordered remanded in prison custody with his son after he was arraigned for allegedly killing one Rasak Olaniyan Olatunji.

MAKURDI—Five students of the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, and a security guard were reportedly killed, while scores sustained injures in two days of bloody conflict between rival cult groups at the institution. Vanguard gathered from a student, who craved anonymity, that the crisis was sparked off by the killing of a student of the institution, last Monday, by a suspected cult gang