Igbo Day: ENUGU—ENUGU—The apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, yesterday, warned the Federal Government to be conscious of the insecurity challenges created in the region by the activities of Fulani herdsmen who are on rampage in the five states causing the destruction of farm lands and livestocks.

Plans by 44-year-old Enioyam Belief, a Nigerian based in Ghana to kidnap her nine-year-old niece has been foiled by police.

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 66-year-old man, who has been practising as a lawyer for 22 years. The suspect, Kayode Jones, who was paraded yesterday by the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, at the command’s headquarters in Ikeja, was arrested in a lawyer’s garb, at the Lagos Judiciary 2016/2017 legal year event on Tuesday, in the premises of the Igbosere Division of the state High Court.

Gunmen, in the early hours of yesterday, stormed a church’s premises at Oke-Ota community in Ibeshe area of Ikorodu, Lagos, and shot dead six members of same family.

Crisis: OLEH—THE peace committee set up by Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta State, to proffer solutions to the protracted land dispute between warring Igbide and Okpolo-Enwhe communities, has submitted its report with a charge to the communities to end their four-month-old feud.

Olu: warri—The Olu of Warri, HRM Ogiame Ikenwoli has appealed to the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, to facilitate the revival and utilisation of the Warri and Koko Ports in Delta State to reduce the problem of militancy in the state.

Jegede: AKURE—THE controversy over the authentic governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ondo state was laid to rest, yesterday, as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, cleared Mr Eyitayo Jegede, SAN, and 25 others to participate in the governorship elections.

Polls: ABEOKUTA—The Labour Party in Ogun State has approached the state High Court sitting in Isabo and obtained an interlocutory injunction restraining the Ogun state Independent Electoral Commission and its Chairman, Risikat Ogunfemi from conducting the forthcoming local government election.

LG A                       APC                             PDP         Reg. Voters  Accredited Voters Akoko Edo                     24,545                13,027           110,118                           39,945 Ovia South West           12,820                8,810              79,964                             24,061 Ikpoba Okha                 33,469                26,096           260,965                           55,348 Etsako West                   29,199                10,843           136,664                           45,620 Etsako East                    18,078                12,552           66,277                             33,032 Etsako Central               10,373                8,827              43,049                             20,145 Esan Central                  9,781                   10,180           50,603                             21,400 Owan East                      […]

By Jimitota Onoyume PORT HARCOURT— Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC,  has assured that it will continue to support Police to effectively fight crime. Acting Managing Director of the Commission, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, gave the assurance when the Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG,  Zone 6, Calabar, Cross River State, paid her a courtesy visit at […]

Buhari: Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that President Muhammadu Buhari is ready to put everything on the line to make Nigeria great.

Aviation authorities at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, have returned about 2,000 pieces of luggage belonging to Nigerian pilgrims. The luggage were earlier withheld for being above the stipulated weight allowed. Spokesman of Max Airlines, one of the three airlines engaged in transporting the pilgrims back home, Ibrahim Dahiru, said that each […]

Edo Election: The Young Democratic Party (YDP) has dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to court for allegedly being responsible for its abysmal performance in the Sept. 28 gubernatorial election in Edo.

THE Saudi Arabian Authority, on Wednesday in Makkah, honoured a Nigerian, Abdulrahman Salis, an indigene of Kaduna State for outstanding performance in Qur’an recitation (Qira’at) in Masjid Haram.

Following the successful trial in Kenya, the software giant, Microsoft handed over the source code for an online intellectual property (IP) registration system to IP authorities across Africa, including the Kenya Copyright Board (KECOBO).