BAUCHI—AN 18-year-old job seeker, Hussein Emmanuel, has had his eyes plucked out by his friend, David Arafat, who promised to assist him secure a job in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

LAGOS—Smugglers operating at the Badagry-Seme border tried a fast one on operatives of the Nigeria Customs by packaging smuggled rice as dead bodies.

When the Israelites made a stupendous blasphemy against Allah saying, “The Most Gracious has betaken a son,” referring to Isa, (Jesus) peace be upon him, they did not know the gravity of their speculative thought. In the following verse, Allah describes the blasphemy as capable of pulling down the skies, and the earth splitting asunder, and leaving the mountains in utter ruins.

LAGOS—Doctors at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Ikeja, are battling to save the life of a two-year-old girl, who was raped by a 28-year-old tailor, called Itua, in Oshodi area of Lagos.

LAGOS—An unidentified middle-aged man, Wednesday, abducted two siblings, who were returning from extra-moral class in Satellite area of Lagos. Thereafter, he exchanged them for two bags of rice in a shop at 63, Marwa Road, near Chemist Bus Stop.

BARELY 24 hours after Aero Contractors suspended its operations indefinitely and sent its workers on compulsory and indefinite leave, another airline, First Nation, has announced the indefinite suspension of its operations.

Abuja—The Federal Government is to work with the states in Northern Nigeria to revive the Durbar Festival because of its huge potential to showcase the pristine African culture and also create jobs. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this in Abuja when he received the Governor of Bauchi State, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar, on a courtesy visit to his office.

Abuja—The nation has lost 63.83 per cent of her farmlands to desertification, resulting in massive North-South migration of Northern herdsmen and farmers and constant clashes with other Nigerians over land resources in parts of the country.

COMMUNITY leaders and youths from Ugbokon community in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State, yesterday, gave reasons they prevented the lawmaker representing Ovia federal constituency of the state in the House of Representatives, Omosede Igbinedion from attending the ground breaking ceremony of the Prof. Pat Utomi $134million Integrated Farm City located in the area.

MR Philip Shuaibu, the APC running mate yesterday affirmed that Godwin Obaseki as governor would reconstruct the state to look like Dubai saying that the APC’s candidate’s expertise in turning around the fortunes of many Nigerian companies has been well documented.