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

PORT HARCOURT—Four notorious cultists in Rivers State were shot dead by policemen, yesterday. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Ahmad Muhammad, who disclosed this to newsmen in Port Harcourt, said policemen engaged the cultists in a fierce gun battle in Ogbakiri, Emohua Local Government Area of the state, adding that three of the cultists died on the spot, while one passed on later at the hospital from bullet wounds.

FOLLOWING the demise of former Coach of the Super Eagles, Stephen Keshi on Wednesday, President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Nigerian football would not remain the same again without the deceased.

Fresh facts emerged yesterday that late Funmi Odusina, one of the post-graduates students of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, that drowned at the Elegushi beach, died while trying to rescue Adesola Ogunmefun.

Immediate past Attorney General of the Federation, Mohammed Adoke, has dismissed as the handiwork of mischief-makers the allegation that he was involved in the litigation that led to the payment of $1.6 billion judgment debt to the 774 local government areas of the country.

Former Comptroller-General of Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, Mr. David Paradang, yesterday told the Federal High Court in Abuja that the former Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro, sidelined him in the botched recruitment that led to the death of 20 persons across the country in 2014.

NIGER Delta Avengers, NDA, yesterday, scuttled the hope of early resolution of the current spate of bombings in the Niger Delta, as it did not only reject the window created for dialogue by the Federal Government, but also blew up another Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, crude oil pipeline in Delta State.

NATIONAL Association of Polytechnic Students, NAPS, has called on the Federal Government to institute a judicial panel of inquiry to investigate the remote and immediate causes of the recent carnage at the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State, during protests by students against the policy of the management of the institution of “no school fees, no examination.”

Akwa Ibom State Government has been urged to release the white paper on the findings of judicial panel of enquiry into the violent communal clash that erupted between Idua Afaha Eduok/Ukpata and Udung Ulo/Using Uso Atai villages in Oron Local Government Area of the state seven years ago.

Nigerians are interesting. Lawyers under the auspices of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, are on the stump, canvassing for votes among their colleagues and there is a semblance of grave-yard silence from Nigerians! Few give a hoot about the outcome; fewer even care about how the outcome could affect them. As usual, the refrain in local parlance, is: I no be lawyer. Wetin come concern me for lawyer dem matter?

THE family of late former coach of the Super Eagles, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi yesterday said they will ensure that a proper autopsy is conducted to ascertain the cause of death of the former Eagles Defender.

FOLLOWING the sudden death of former Coach of the Super Eagles, Stephen Keshi, as a result of cardiac arrest, the need to adopt preventive health strategies as well as heart-friendly lifestyle becomes paramount. Medical experts describe cardiac arrest as a condition in which the heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops beating. It often occurs with no warning, and if this happens, blood stops flowing to the brain and other vital organs. Sudden cardiac arrest usually causes death if it’s not treated within minute.

By Josef Omorotionmwan THIS is neither a rejoinder nor a Biography on Crown Prince (Ambassador) Eheneden Erediauwa, Edaiken N’ Uselu. Rather, it is more of an addendum to the brilliant prompting by The Guardian editorial at page 14 of its Friday, 14 May 2016 edition. For cohesiveness, we feel impelled to recapitulate the major highlights […]