NIGER-DELTA Avengers, NDA, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari was free to step up oil exploration in the North East, but should forget about export of a drop of crude oil from the Niger Delta.

As the N750 million car purchase scam continues to rock Benue State House of Assembly, the complex was yesterday taken over by security personnel and youths of All Progressives Congress, APC, and Peoples Democratic, PDP.

The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Rivers state has described High Chief Raymond Dokpesi as a first class candidate among those seeking the national chairmanship position of the party.

President Barack Obama is refusing to rule out the possibility that Russia is trying to sway the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump.

“I am a kidnapper and I know I am guilty. It is the handiwork of the devil and I pray that God Almighty and the people I might have hurt and disappointed will forgive me.”

Hillary Clinton became the first woman in history to win the White House nomination of a major US political party Tuesday, securing the backing of a majority of Democrats at a convention in Philadelphia.

A 50-year-old landlord, Solomon Kudu, allegedly removed the roof of his tenants’ apartment and stole one of the tenant’s N45,000, offences for which he was arraigned, yesterday, by the Police in a Lugbe Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja.

LAGOS—Three persons were shot dead yesterday, during a shootout between hoodlums and some officers attached to the Federal Operations Zone A, Ikeja, of the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, at White Sand community in Ijora Badia area of Lagos State.

THE Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, has announced strict measures for a hitch-free 64th annual convention of the church, which is scheduled to begin on Monday, August 1, and run till Sunday, August 7.

CHAIRMAN, Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Imo West, yesterday took a swipe at the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, asking him to stop the present demolition exercise in the state against the backdrop that the people are suffering in the face of the present recession.

THE Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, yesterday, stated that President Muhammadu Buhari’s grouse against the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu is because the Senator is an Igbo man and not because of party affiliation.

On Wednesday July 20, 2016, operatives of the Directorate of State Services (DSS) reportedly swooped on the Speaker of the Zamfara State House of Assembly, Sanusi Rikiji; his Deputy, Muhammad Gumi and other principal officers of the House and hauled them into detention, allegedly on the orders of the State Governor, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari.

Lagos—Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of a Lagos High Court sitting at Ikeja has said that a charge bordering on land theft before her which a business woman, Mrs Moji Yakubu is being allegedly prosecuted ought to have been land trespass.

Kwara State Government has released N1.2 billion for the payment of teachers’ salaries, even as Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed approved a five-man panel of enquiry to probe alleged irregular mass recruitment in the state Teaching Service Commission.

ABIA State Council of Nigeria Labour Congress [NLC] has tasked the Abia State Government to settle arrears of salary owed to Abia workers without further delay.