There were strong indications yesterday, that those who bought Lagos State Government properties in the last 10 years at give-away prices will lose them to government.

Crown Prince of Benin Kingdom, Prince Eheneden Erediauwa, yesterday, received a new name from the gods of the land.

THE Federal Government has denied insinuations that it had completely banned rice importation into the country, saying that it only restricted the importation of the product through the designated Sea Ports.

THAT the All Progressives Congress, APC, won the recently concluded election into the 20 Local Government Areas and 37 newly created Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs in Ogun State did not come to close observers of the state’s politics as a surprise.

One of the Supreme Court judges, whose home was invaded by the Department of State Services, DSS, penultimate weekend, Justice John Inyang Okoro, has alleged that his travail in the hands of the operatives was in connection with alleged desire of the Presidency and All Progressives Congress, APC, to win at all cost, election appeals in Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Abia states.

LAGOS—A 41-year-old woman, who was arrested by policemen attached to Area ‘J’ Command, Ajah, Lagos State, for allegedly hiring assassins to kill her husband of 14 years over a disagreement which led to their separation, has said she was a frustrated housewife but that she only sent the thugs to beat him.

ENUGU—PARENTS of Divine Emmanuel, have appealed for help from philanthropic individuals and organisations to help them raise the N4.7 million needed for the treatment of their three year- old son of a strange illness known as “bladder Exstrophy.”

ONITSHA—FORMER Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC and Ex-Aviation Minister, Chief Osita Chidoka at the weekend, performed a symbolic feeding of 5,000 children with five roasted yams and two plates of garnished palm oil, similar to the Biblical feeding of 5,000 people with five loaves and two fish by Jesus Christ.

AWKA—AFTER months of exchanging allegations and blames between the people of Abagana in Njikoka local government area and Ukpo in Dunukofia local government over the land dispute between the two neighbouring communities, the Anambra State government has finally waded into the matter with the appointment of a panel of inquiry to look into and resolve the dispute.

DESPITE challenges posed by renewed militancy in the Niger Delta, reopened Warri Refinery and Petrochemical Company, WRPC, currently produces 2.5 million litres of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, and 2.2m of kerosene per day.