Former bodyguards to president Muhammadu Buhari during the electioneering campaigns, last year, Wednesday vowed to occupy the presidential villa if allowances owed to them were not paid to enable them cater for their families during the upcoming Salleh celebrations.

Abuja—Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, yesterday, said it had lifted the force majeure, on gas supply to Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG, export complex.

WARRI—CHIEF Thomas Ekpemupolo, 84-year-old father of ex-militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, amputated in July, over a month after soldiers allegedly brutalized him in Kurutie, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, is dead.

Angry fans of Abia Warriors FC went berserk on Wednesday at the Umuahia Township Stadium and attacked Centre Referee, Abubakar Ago, from Yobe and Assistant Referee, Azeez Orowole, from Osun.

Conflicting judgments of courts particularly when they occur in courts of coordinate jurisdiction are a major cause for concern; these conflicts seriously embarrass and undermine the judicial process, citizen confidence in the integrity of the courts and the image of the judiciary as a whole. People begin to wonder: what is happening with the courts? But this is not a new sprout, as it were.

The economic and social development of a country is largely dependent on the productive employment of its working age population. Empowering our working age population will improve their lives as well as allow them to contribute meaningfully to Nigeria’s national development.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole says contrary to the claims of the PDP Governorship Candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu that he has never been indicted for any crime, that the PDP candidate was allegedly rusticated by a panel led by Prof. Itse Sagay for two years after he allegedly bathed a fellow student with acid at the University of Benin, UNIBEN.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it had begun consultation on the fate of Saturday’s governorship election in Edo, following call on it to postpone the exercise over security treat.

THE Edo PDP has condemned the alleged plan by the APC-led Federal Government to postpone the September 10 governorship election, describing it as “ a despicable connivance” with the security agencies.

THE Vanguard chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, August 31 elected new executives that would manage its affairs for the next three years.

No doubt, Mr. Ibrahim Idris may be one of the happiest persons in Nigeria at the moment, following his confirmation as substantive Inspector General of Police, IGP, by the Council of State, on Wednesday, September 7, 2016, at the State House, in Abuja.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Wednesday sealed the office of Nokia-Alcatel located in Lekki, Lagos for operating without license.

Apple on Wednesday unveiled two upgraded versions of its iconic iPhone, in a move aimed at capturing more consumers in an increasingly saturated global smartphone market.

President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with the family of Chief Michael Ibru, who passed on Tuesday, at age of 85. A statement in Abuja on Wednesday by the president’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, said that Buhari also commiserated with the Government and people of Delta, and the Urhobos.

The Federal Government on Wednesday in Abuja dismissed social media reports linking it and Dangote group with a plan to ‘flood’ the country with Genetically Modified rice (GMO) as extremely uncharitable. This is contained in a statement issued by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Mr Femi Adesina.