The authorities of Bayero University, Kano, have confirmed the release of one of its lecturers, Mr. Saminu Aliyu-Kiri, who was kidnapped in Kaduna State last Thursday night.

Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, has dismissed insinuations that the Federal Government was working against the people of the Niger Delta.

Police have arrested five suspects, including the gang leader and an informant, in connection with the kidnap of three landlords and their trainer in Isheri North Area of Lagos State.

In an apperent setback for Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, the forgery case against them surreptitiously withdrawn last week, is to be filed afresh by the Federal Government.

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, yesterday, called on the Department of State Services, DSS, to immediately and unconditionally release the two justices of the Supreme Court, whose homes were raided by its operatives in the early hours of Saturday, and later taken into custody.

Rivers United have been rewarded with a cash gift of N500,000 each and they will train in Madrid according to Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike after they qualified to feature in next year’s CAF Champions League.

Indications emerged, weekend, that the Federal Government may order the return of the Special Military Intervention force, Operation Crocodile Smile, which was largely successful in smoking out militants and destroying their camps in the creeks, back to the Niger Delta region to checkmate attacks on oil pipelines and gas facilities that have serious effect on the nation’s economy.

Victorious Super Eagles of Nigeria are now smiling to the bank after they got some of their outstanding payments immediately after their 2-1 win in Zambia yesterday.

Barely 48 hours after the Department of State Services, DSS, had taken seven suspected corrupt judges into its custody, details of what led to their arrests and how they were picked up from their homes by operatives of the agency began to emerge last night.

Operatives of the Lagos State Task Force, yesterday, demolished over 2,500 illegal shanties allegedly used as hideouts by criminals and hoodlums at White Sand, Jakande Estate, along Lekki-Beach Road and the environs, in Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lagos.

Politicking in 2019, when President Muhammadu Buhari would have been nearing the completion of his first tenure shall be spiced by many considerations. It will certainly throw new alliances between groups and regions; heighten anxiety and the actors would deploy demonic intrigues to undo political rivals.

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has said he would apply for an order of Mandamus to force the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to investigate the deposit and loans granted by former governors of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to some banks in the country.

FORMER Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, yesterday, joined those clamouring for restructuring of the country, saying it was the only way to accelerate Nigeria’s development.

Electricity supply in the country declined to 3,568 megawatts, MW, yesterday, as against the peak generation of 4,000 MW recorded on Saturday, the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has stated.

IN a move to develop young tennis stars in Nigeria, a legal practitioner, Babatunde Fashanu, SAN, has called on corporate organizations and individuals to sponsor Tennis tournaments that would bring about home grown stars.