WORRIED by the unwillingness of the Defence headquarters to pay the balance of over N2 billion debt owed its members, the coalition of Houseboat Owner’s, yesterday, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the matter.

Sango-ota—A 30-year-old trader has been arrested by the police in Ogun state for naming his pet dog ‘Buhari.’

lagos—Publisher of Vanguard Newspapers, Mr. Sam Amuka, yesterday, commended the Lagos State Police Command, for arresting the armed robbery suspects that attacked his Anthony Village, Lagos home, two months ago.

FORMER Governor of Plateau State and senator representing Plateau North senatorial district, Jonah Jang, yesterday blasted Governor Simon Lalong’s alleged continuous efforts to discredit his administration and efforts at developing the state.

Gen Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida,retd, who attained the age of 75 today in his characteristic way of marking his birthday, had a session with members of the Correspondent Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Minna, Niger State where he answered questions on prominent issues that marked his life in public service.

Nigeria’s march towards digital inclusion may have started, but experts believe that it will take longer than expected to attain the goal, if some retrogressive policies of government are not urgently reversed.

Some members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbariam under the aegis of concerned members of ASUU, yesterday, dissociated themselves from the activities of the union leadership led by Mr Emeka Nwabunnia that last week announced vacancy in the position of the Vice Chancellor.

Nigerian U-23 coach, Samson Siasia disclosed ahead of the semi-final clash against Germany that he will not gamble with the team, the way he did when Nigeria lost 2-0 to Colombia during the group stages.

On the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton, speaking of her plans for the American economy, said she wanted “to make the economy work for everyone, not just those at the top”. Social justice is an important theme in the upcoming US elections, one which elicits passion and feelings of outrage across board. We in Nigeria are all too comfortable with inequality in our society, which is seen as an almost inevitable fact.

ABEOKUTA—No fewer than four persons reportedly lost their lives, yesterday, in Ibara Housing Estate area of Abeokuta, Ogun State, after excessive consumption of local liquor, known as Ogogoro.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has assured that the September 10 governorship election will be credible, free and fair. Edo State Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Mr. Sam Olumekun, yesterday, said that the commission is prepared to conduct an election that would be adjudged as the most transparent in the history of the state.

A 33-year-old driver, Adelaja Olalekan, has been remanded in prison custody for conspiring to rob his employer, Professor Benjamin Aribisala, a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo.

TWO members of a syndicate that specialised in vandalising underground cables belonging to the defunct Nigeria Telecommunication, NITEL, offered N500,000 to men of Lagos State Police Command to set them free.

The internal crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, worsened yesterday, as the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court issued an order of interlocutory injunction barring the party from conducting its National Convention until September 7.

The election of a new national chairman of the party has been laced with many intrigues with Mr. Fred Agbaje and Dr. Raymond Dokpesi as the frontline candidates. The line up has inevitably bemused the political class given the fact that the two front-liners have easily put the much more political operator, Chief Olabode George into playing second fiddle.