The Nigeria Police Force on Tuesday said it had arrested one of the suspected kidnappers and killers of the Obi of Ubulu-Uku, Edward Akaeze Ofulue 111,of Delta. The Force Spokesman, Deputy Commissioner of Police, (DCP) Don Awunah, who presented the suspect and others to newswmen said the suspect, Umar Mohammed aka `small` was arrested by a team of special anti-kidnapping operatives on July 19 at Abraka, Delta.

The Japanese Government, through its agency, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), has donated solar power worth $9.7 million to the Federal Government to boost electricity in the country. The Ambassador of Japan to Nigeria, Mr Sadanobu Kusaoke, disclosed this in Abuja on Tuesday during the inauguration of the project.

Parents of the missing Chibok girls have explained why they did not join the protest march that took place yesterday in Abuja. Yakubu Nkeki, the leader of the missing girls’ parents who lives in Chibok, told newsmen in a telephone interview that parents of the abducted girls based in Chibok held a meeting last week during which they decided they would not attend.

The National Agency for Foods and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has alerted Nigerians of the prevalence of fake alcoholic drinks, especially dry gin in the nation’s markets. Dr Abubakar Jimoh, its Director, Special Duties, told newsmen in Jos on Tuesday that the agency had continued to advise consumers of alcoholic beverages to be alert and be very wary of fake and unregistered drinks.

“I stabbed him as he did not study,” the 48-year-old father told police. Satake had reportedly wanted his son to pass an entrance examination for the same private junior high school in Nagoya from which he had graduated.

Former governor of Edo, Prof. Oserheimen Osunbor, said he was declared disloyal by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) his refusing to share the state’s resources to party leaders. Osunbor, who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the 2015 general elections, disclosed this at APC’s campaign rally in Iruekpen, Esan West Local Government Area, for the Sept. 10 governorship election in the state.

A tailor, Jeremiah Ibrahim, has told a Jikoyi Customary Court that his mother in-law and his wife must provide his son dead or alive. Ibrahim, who resides in Nyanya, said this when he testified in a divorce petition filed by his wife on Tuesday.

Civil servants in Adamawa on Tuesday staged a protest in front of the Government House Yola calling for the removal of three government officials from office. The protesters, led by the state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mr Dauda Maina, shut the entrance to government house for several hours.

Secretary of States of the United States of America, Mr. John Kerry has arrived the presidential Villa, Abuja.

Prime Minister of Czech Republic, Bohuslav Sobotka, has warned that its government did not want a larger Muslim presence in the country.

Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja, on Tuesday, disqualified himself from presiding over a suit accusing President Muhammadu Buhari of breaching extant laws by nominating persons not from oil producing regions, into the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.

President Muhammadu Buhari has described Boko Haram, its adherents and other Islamic deviants who kill the innocent and shout ‘God (Allah) is great’, as mentally unbalanced people saying ‘it is either they do not know the meaning of those words or they are simply deranged’.

The Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) has called on local industrialists and other stakeholders in the manufacturing sector to step up production to boost the nation’s economy.

President Muhammadu Buhari has described the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, as a patriotic Nigerian who has demonstrated uncommon leadership style.