ILORIN—Kwara State Police Command, yesterday, said it has arrested six middle-aged rice harvesters, who killed their landlady, who owned a farm, and stole her 11 bags of rice.

Recently, Ekiti State was agog for a historic visit of the foremost traditional ruler of the Yorubaland, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, the Ooni of Ile-Ife.

ABUJA—FOLLOWING the approval of 2017 budget estimates by the Federal Executive Council, FEC, the Senate said, yesterday, it would approve the 2017 to 2019 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) before the presentation of the 2017 Appropriation Bill next week.

THE Senate, yesterday, nipped in the bud the impasse that may arise from who succeeds a dead governorship or presidential candidate in case such a person dies before the announcement of an election result.

ABUJA — Former chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, yesterday, accused the former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Michael Aondoakaa and the Former Chairman of EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri of trying to destroy the commission by inflicting “serious damage”on it and which the commission is still trying to recover. He also insisted that lawyers were equally doing “serious damage” to the war against corruption in the country.

THE Federal  Government is seeking prosecution of 33 of its agencies over non-remittance of N450 billion revenue generated between 2010 and 2015.

No fewer than 10 persons are reported dead, when unidentified hoodlums stormed two communities, Umuokeduru and Imeni in Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State.

Former governorship candidate of Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, in Anambra, Mr Godwin Ezeemo, has tasked the Igbo to save their language and culture from extinction.

ABUJA—HUNDREDS of members of the Shiite Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, yesterday, stormed the National Assembly to protest the continued detention of their leader, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky.

THE Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday, blasted members of the Professor Itse Sagay – led Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, PACAC and asked them to stop living in the delusion of being corruption free because there is no saint among them.

Mr. Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser (Media and Publicity) to President Muhammadu Buhari in this interview navigates through and sometimes around some knotty issues that have recently bestirred the polity. He spoke on among others, the alleged intraparty wrangling between the President and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the role of the President in the All Progressives Congress, APC’s victory in the Ondo State governorship election, and the criticism raised against his boss by President Olusegun Obasanjo among others. Excerpts:

GOVERNOR Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, yesterday, told militant groups in the Niger Delta region to desist from further attacks on oil installations, saying the time had come for them to sheathe their swords and embrace dialogue.

National power generation capacity has dropped from 4,285 megawatts recorded in September 16 to 3,321 megawatts, yesterday, due to scarcity of gas.

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has accused security agencies of threatening to assassinate him during the December 10 rerun elections.

Super Falcons coach Florence Omagbemi has backed her team to silence Cameroon in Saturday’s Africa Women Nations Cup final in Yaounde.