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.

lagos—THE rising rate of ethnic disturbances and religious extremism in parts of Nigeria took the centre stage yesterday, as the Federal Government was urged to prevent religion and ethnicity from becoming Nigeria’s national identity.

A Grade 1 Area Court, Karmo, Life Camp, Abuja, on Thursday admitted a 35-year-old driver, Emmanuel Adaba, to N10, 000 bail for alleged criminal intimidation.

Delta State Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has called for urgent measures by relevant government agencies to offset arrears of over five years salaries and allowances owed workers of Delta Steel Company, DSC, Aladja, Delta State.

Abia Renaissance Front, ARF, a pro good-governance and transparency in government group, has called on the people of Abia to continue to pray for the success of Dr Uche Ogah, in the ongoing court battle towards becoming the state governor.

Fresh hope yesterday rose for members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, as the Federal Government, through the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, released all their members who were arrested by various security agencies in Aba, Abia State, during their prayer rally in February, this year and clamped into detention camps and prison custody.

As Nigeria join the rest of the world to celebrate the International Youth Day, today, the Director General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr Dakuku Peterside, has called on youths in Rivers State to shun political thuggery, cultism and killings.

Coordinator of the Nigerian Joint Response, NJR, a humanitarian programme in the North-East, Hanna Van Schie, said yesterday that since the Boko Haram insurgency began in 2009, over 14.8 million persons had been affected, with only eight percent of Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, living in camps.