SENATE President, Bukola Saraki, has urged security agencies in the country not to treat the rumours that Boko Haram terrorists were recruiting members from Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, camps in the North East with levity but to urgently investigate the issue to unravel those behind the menace, if any.

ABEOKUTA— A 32-year-old man, Ezekiel Igbokwe, who butchered his wife’s lover, Victor Olatundun, 38, when he caught him with his wife, Juliet Igbokwe, in his matrimonial bed, was among 23 suspects paraded by Ogun State Police Command, yesterday.

Fresh crisis has erupted in the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbariam, over alleged tenure elongation for the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Fidelis Okafor by the Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano.

Former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Bola Ajibola,SAN, yesterday advised President Muhammadu Buhari not to succumb to the pressure to relax his anti-corruption war.

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State, yesterday, inaugurated Borno State Islamic Preaching Board, BSIPB, to regulate Islamic preaching across the state.

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, yesterday, said he could not be investigated or interrogated over alleged padding of the 2016 budget.

The Minister of Health, Prof.Isaac Adewole, yesterday, confirmed an outbreak of wild polio virus, WPV, in Borno State.

A member of House of Representatives, Mr. Daniel Reyenieju, representing Warri federal constituency, has expressed disappointment over the alleged budget padding drama in the House, saying “I remain most pained when you hear those accused of being involved in the saga arrogantly telling the world that they were attracting to their respective constituencies projects worth over a billion naira.”

HIGH wired politicking is playing out ahead of the November 26 governorship election in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ondo state.

As Nigeria joined the rest of the world to mark the World Breastfeeding Week (August 1-7), the nation’s slow progress in the practice of exclusive breastfeeding came into sharp focus.

As part of value addition to the state’s tourism offering, the Cross River State governor, Prof. Ben Ayade, has announced plans to build a beach resort in Calabar.

THE new Abia State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Leye Oyebade has warned officers and men in the Abia State Command against extortion and abuse of citizens’ human rights.

There is no crisis in Ekiti State. It’s just that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is busy hounding the governor and his men.

Founder and Chancellor, Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Kwara State, Bishop David Oyedepo, has called on African nations to evolve sustainable growth and development in agriculture to move the continent out of poverty, saying poverty among black race was a product of unused brain capacity to fashion out solutions.

An Ado-Ekiti Magistrate’s Court has ordered the remand of 42-year-old Josiah Johnson in prisons custody for allegedly beating his wife to death for denying him sex.