As the days for the boxing event of the Olympics draw near, Coach Anthony Chukwuemeka Konyegwachie has vowed to get a medal for Team Nigeria from Nigeria’s sole entrant inboxing, Efe Ajagba.

LAGOS—It was the end of the road for a six-man robbery gang that specialised in hijacking fuel-loaded tankers in Ogun State, following their arrest by operatives of the newly-established Zonal Intervention Squad, at the Zone 2 command, Onikan, Lagos.

LAGOS—A 48-year-old suspect, Emmanuel Magbatie, who reportedly raped an 18-month-old baby at 23, Adebayo Street in Owutu area of Ikorodu, Lagos, has denied the allegation.

The attention of Nigerian fans will from today turn to Rio’s Maracana stadium as athletics events of the Olympic Games start, with Blessing Okagbare hunting for an elusive women’s 100m medal.

Ahead of 2017 edition of the prestigious Afro Model Awards, organizers of the awards recently stormed the country in search of Nigerian models who would take the centre stage at the forthcoming edition.

YENAGOA—THE arrest of the traditional ruler of Agrissaba community in Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, His Royal Highness King Walter Agri, by operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, over his alleged involvement in a protest against the Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NOAC, is causing tension in the oil-rich riverine community.

ABUJA— India, Spain and The Netherlands have emerged biggest buyers of Nigeria’s crude oil over a 12-month period, from June 2015 to May 2016, according to a document obtained, yesterday, from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.

CHAIRMAN of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, SAN, picked holes in the comments of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara that he could not be investigated or interrogated over alleged padding of the 2016 budget.

ABEOKUTA—CONFUSION, yesterday, engulfed the Customary Court sitting in Agbe’loba area of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, when men of the Nigerian Police and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, clashed over a court judgment.

BENIN—EDO State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has blamed the withdrawal of seven courses at Ambrose Alli University, AAU, Ekpoma, by the National Universities Commission, NUC, to the total neglect and abandonment of the university by the state government.