Contrary to some newspaper reports yesterday alleging that Fulani herdsmen are back to Nimbo in Uzo-Uwani local government area of Enugu state and that five of their women have been raped, the traditional ruler of the community which was attacked on April 25, 2016, Igwe John Akor and Enugu state Police Command said in Enugu that herdsmen are not back to the community.

The Federal Government has said it would issue $1 billion Eurobond in the third quarter of this year towards its securing of $3 billion loan from the World Bank and African Development Bank.

FORMER Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, NUC, Professor Peter Okebukola has said that Nigerian universities deviated from the initial agreement NUC had with Vice-Chancellors in 2004 when it introduced post-UTME to screen candidates via oral interview and written essay. Just as the Deputy Director, Distance Learning Centre, University of Ibadan, UI, Professor Oyesoji Akanmi also stated that scrapping post-UTME is against the university autonomy, saying, ‘’ The development will place admission burden on the 40 federal universities.”

The most celebrated court case in Yenagoa and perhaps in all of Bayelsa State this year has been the ongoing trial of Yunusa Dahiru, alias Yellow, the alleged abductor of 14 years old Ese Oruru.

The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, court has imposed a fine of $3.3 million on Nigeria over the extra-judicial killing of eight citizens in the Apo District of Abuja, Federal Capital Territory.

RIGHTS activist, Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor, has called on the Federal Government to ensure that the imminent dialogue over the current Niger Delta crisis was not restricted to political leaders and other familiar leaders from the Niger Delta region alone, noting that the consultation should be all encompassing.

GHANA Football Association has paid tributes to the late Nigerian coach and footballer, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi.

Despite the controversies that have shadowed the Senator Bukola Saraki led Senate, it has in its way tried to imprint its legacies in the sand of time.

Members of the Non Academics Staff Union, NASU, of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, yesterday, protested the appointment of Prof. Ayobami Salami as the new Vice Chancellor of the institution.

The Federal Government has been advised to involve elder statesman and prominent Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark in the ongoing dialogue with Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, to ensure speedy and amicable resolution of the crisis.