A former member of the Federal House of Representatives, Chief U.S.A Igwesi, has decried the move by the 8th National Assembly to confer immunity on presiding officers of the National Assembly, describing it as an abuse of legislative privileges and self-serving.

In its efforts to ensure that peace returns to the Niger Delta region, a group, Concerned Niger Delta Elders, CNDE, has warned the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government not to enter into any kind of dialogue with the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND, but rather, dialogue directly with the Niger Delta Avengers or their appointees.

Barely 24 hours after Oraukwu community in Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State protested against the candidature of Dr Emeka Onuorah as the monarch of the area, the state governor, Chief Willie Obiano yesterday installed him as the traditional ruler of the town.

DELTA State Government has intervened in the rift between the people of Oghara Kingdom, Ethiope West Local Government Area of the state and the Nigerian Navy over the community’s land, which the navy claimed to have acquired for the Nigerian Navy Logistic Command, Oghara.

Since 1987, I had promised myself that I was going to write two tributes, one for Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi, the first Military Governor of Western Nigeria and the other for Captain Thomas Sankara on the anniversaries of their assassinations and for forty-nine years in the case of Colonel Fajuyi, and 29 years in the case of Captain Sankara, the Military Head of State of Burkina Faso (1983-1987) the anniversaries came and went without fulfilling the promise I made to myself.

Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, My Monday Igbuya, yesterday, commended His Royal Majesty, Orhue 1, Orodje of Okpe Kingdom for stimulating harmony and development in Delta State.

Kano State government yesterday claimed it had uncovered plans by the former governor of the state, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso to disrupt next Saturday’s state House of Assembly by-election in Minjibir.

ITSEKIRI’S opposition to the choice of Adjogbe Ajenakevwe, one of Delta State’s nominees for the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, took a confrontational dimension, yesterday, as youths besieged the Warri home of Justin Rewane.

The panel set up by the Enugu State government over slavery crises at Alor Uno in Nsukka Local Government Area of the state is to conduct public hearing over the issue on Wednesday, August 3, 2016.

There was commotion at Igboeze North Local Government headquarters, Enugu Ezike, yesterday when some soldiers invaded the local vigilante office in a bid to recover some items said to have been seized from one of them by the vigilante people.

The top hierarchy of Imo State Police Command, including the Commissioner of Police, CP, Mr. Taiwo Lakanu, yesterday, stormed Isiala Mbano, Oru East and Ihitte Uboma local council areas of the state, to enforce peaceful election.

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FIFA President, Mr. Gianni Infantino has written to NFF President Amaju Pinnick, to express delight about “a host of unforgettable memories” during the recent two –day visit of himself and Secretary General, Fatma Samoura, to Nigeria.

FORMER Super Eagles captain and coach, Mr. Stephen Keshi was yesterday laid in state at the Stephen Keshi Township Stadium amidst tributes and encomiums.

Fishermen, on the platform of Fisheries Cooperative Federation of Nigeria, FCFNL, have decried zero allocation to fish production as a major reason for massive importation of fish in Nigeria, thereby costing the country 100,000 jobs and millions of dollars in foreign exchange annually.