Mr. Bashir Makama is the new Benue state Commissioner of Police. In this interview with our Crime Editor, Emma Nnadozie and Peter Duru, he spoke about the strategies he adopted upon assumption of office to drive down the rate of crimes and communal clashes in the state.

The World Anti-Doping Agency allowed US tennis players Serena and Venus Williams to take banned substances, while gymnast Simone Biles failed a doping test yet avoided disqualification, a hacking group revealed Tuesday.

The President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) , Dr. Agnes Kalibata, has called on African countries to re-align their agricultural practices, warning that failure to do so will see them having no money to develop other economic components as all financial concentration would be on food imports.

TODAY I will be talking about the importance of having a good relationship with your spouse in order to improve your chances of conceiving a baby and you might think why are we talking about this? How does it affecting me getting pregnant as long as the sperm meets the egg? I’m just going to explain couple of reasons why it’s so important.

Four armed robbers Monday attacked the Jos home of Nigeria international Ogenyi Onazi, carting away valuables including a Toyota Highlander and cash.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan, Tuesday, paid a private visit to former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, at their Hilltop residences in Minna.

SOMETHING doesn’t look right about the decision to postpone the Edo State governorship election slated for last week. This is regardless of whatever reason or reasons informed the decision for the postponement by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. But even on this there is nothing to fix the decision on. Conflicting reasons have been adduced for the postponement and the fact that no consensus can be reached on this apparently simple matter only raises suspicion about INEC’s motive for tinkering with the electoral calendar.

LAGOS—Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, have arrested a suspected cultist, who was on a revenge mission along LASU-Isheri Road, Lagos.

Zambia are in disarray ahead of their first World Cup 2018 qualifiers against Nigeria in October, following the sacking of coach George Lwanda-mina and the subse-quent appointment of Wedson Nyirenda.

THE Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, during Sallah break in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, distributed empowerment materials worth N250 million to select beneficiaries across the state.

ABEOKUTA—No fewer than seven nursing mothers and their new born babies, yesterday, escaped death, as flood ravaged the maternity ward of the hospital they were admitted in, in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

ENUGU—Three hit-and-run accident victims, Agata Eze, Emilier Ugwu and Roseline Okolo, who were killed last September 2, precisely in front of All Saints Catholic Church,Ibagwa-Nike,Enugu, along T’Junction-Opi-Nsukka expressroad,were last weekend, declared Martyrs of their parish.

ASABA—NO fewer than 400 elderly persons have benefited from a one-day free medical care programme of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Asaba Diocese, Delta State.

Nigeria is among 12 countries in Africa that have posted higher agriculture productivity and stronger GDP growth as well as sharper declines in malnutrition due to early implementation of the Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) goals.

A United Nations, agency, Food and Agricultural Organisation, FAO, and private sector institutions in the country predicted, yesterday, that inflationary pressures may still be on the nation’s economy through to the end of the year, contrary to some indicators, which pointed to a waning cost-push consumer price increases.