The Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, dismissed a suit that sought to remove senators Andy Ubah and Stella Oduah from the National Assembly.

The Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Prince Buruji Kashamu, has raised the alarm over a plot by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to abduct him as well as plans by some individuals to assassinate him.

The Movement for Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB and Biafra Independence Movement, BIM, yesterday stated that military coup d’tat or not in Nigeria, as speculated in some quarters, would not deter the movement from carrying out its non violent struggle to actualize Biafra.

Barack Obama will cut short a trip to Europe and travel to Dallas next week in the wake of the deadly ambush in the city that left five police dead, the White House said Friday.

Nigeria dancehall star Burna Boy was recently welcomed back to London after his seven years ban. Burna Boy who has been looking forward to making a grand return after he was banned, in an interview said that relocating to Nigeria inspired his decision to go into music.

Ikpeazu, the Ambode of Abia. Sprang from nowhere, chosen by the gods. The deity that decreed him can no longer summon the winds. So he has been left like a tailless cow to suffer the menace of flies. It must be harrowing. These implacable flies dancing harmlessly like butterflies but stinging like charmed bees. Uche Ogah, the quiet and unassuming dove. Now reeling out dance steps dictated by a practiced but invisible drummer. The mastery of the ability to stampede federal bureaucracy. Frightened Ikpeazu has learnt to fly frantically, without perching. Abia, a hive of determination and industry, forced into a week long sleep .

THE Federal Government explained yesterday why it has refused to enter into dialogue with the Niger Delta Avengers who has continuously bombed pipelines in the region even as the militants vowed not to beg government for negotiation. The Federal Government gave the explanation a day after the Avengers blew up three more trunk lines in Bayelsa and Rivers. Meanwhile, residents of over 75 riverine communities Delta state have cried out over the pollution of their environment and environment by the activities of the Avengers and other militant groups.

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu, yesterday, formally stepped down as the Group Managing Director, GMD, of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, with the handing over to the new helmsman, Mr. Maikanti Baru. This was even as the newly appointed GMD, Baru, rolled out a 12-point programme for the NNPC, which included addressing and defraying the cash calls arrears owed International Oil Companies, IOC, by the NNPC and also ensuring that the Federal Government is relieved of the burden of cash calls obligations.

Two persons, yesterday, narrowly escaped death as the gun of an orderly attached to a Senator accidentally discharged when he tried to remove the margazine before boarding a flight at the General Aviation Terminal of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. The orderly and a woman standing by were injured on the legs. According to eye witness account , the orderly who was to travel on Arik Air and wanted to lodge his gun, which is a standard practice on air travel, but the gun released a bullet that splinted and hit both the man and woman on the leg as he bent down to pull the magazine out of the gun.

President Muhammadu Buhari has regretted that former renown politician and Marafan Sokoto, late Umaru Shinkafi died when his experience and wisdom were “badly needed in the efforts to move Nigeria forward.” He however said that the deceased distinguished himself and would live beyond the grave because the country would continue to remember his immeasurable contributions for years to come.

The Nasarawa State Chapters of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) yesterday shutdown the activities of government in the state over workers’salaries cut by 50 percent. NLC Chairman, Com Abdullahi Adeka, and that of the TUC Danladi Sabo-Namo, who announced the actions of the union while briefing newsmen in Lafia said the indefinite strike action by the workers in the state was due to the failure of the state government to honour the demand of the union by refusing to reverse its decision on the salaries cut by over 50 percent.

THE federal government yesterday lashed out at the Niger/Delta Avengers saying that they are not freedom fighters but economic warriors fighting for their own private pockets. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said this while delivering the second foundation lecture of Elizade University,Ilaramokin, Ondo state entitled “The Future is here earlier than we thought”. According to him the so call avengers “are not freedom fighters but fighting for their own economic benefits.

Narrating his ordeal, Andre who studied computer science and mathematics at the University of Calabar, Cross River State, said that inside the prison, they have special section for VIPs, where inmates who have the resources pay between N30,000 to N100,000 depending on how well furnished the rooms are. Some of the VIP rooms, according to findings, have fans and radio. Such inmates, Crime Guard gathered, are allowed to use mosquito nets, iPhones and iPads. Further findings revealed that they also watch movies while the general cells are for inmates who can’t afford the VIP cells.

The setting was Federal High Court, Yenagoa, Bayelsa state. The date was June 22, 2016. The court was already in session as the trial judge, Justice Ajiya Nganjiwa, asked the court registrar to call the next case. The registrar rose up and said “suit number FHC/YNG/C8/51/2016 between the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa Versus 121 Unknown Corpses”. Everyone in the courtroom exchanged glances. What offences could the corpses have committed that the government would charge them to court. Will the prosecution bring the corpses to court or will the corpses have counsel to defend them. Observers were curious about what the case was all about. But their curiousity gave way to relief when they later discovered that the suit, being a motion ex-parte that did not require the presence of the other party.

I have been having a lot of trouble with my husband. It’s not necessarily trouble, but I’ve been unhappy for a long time. Lately, nothing seems good between us anymore. He doesn’t want to do anything. Our anniversary came and went without a card. So did Mother’s Day and my birthday. We haven’t exchanged a hug or a kiss in I don’t know how long, and sex between us doesn’t even exist. What am I going to do? Please help.