Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari needs to address grievances in the Delta region where militants have been blowing up oil pipelines in a conflict that has become a “major concern”, a senior British official said yesterday.

One of the two suspected pickpockets arrested by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, of the Lagos State Police Command, weekend, in Maryland and Mile 12 areas Lagos, said he spends his proceeds on prostitutes.

Two members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign state of Biafra, MASSOB, were reportedly killed by two policemen attached to Okpoko Police Division, Onitsha suburb, Anambra State, while others sustained injuries while a shop was razed yesterday.

The nation’s power sector crisis deepened, weekend, following the mass disconnection of historic debtors by all the electricity distribution companies, DISCOs, to protest the huge unpaid electricity bills by this class of consumers. For now, all historic debtors, including residential, commercial, industrial and govern-ment establishments across the three tiers of government, would have to find alternative means of electricity supply until this debt issue is resolved.

Closer collaboration among all stakeholders and regional integration are key ingredients for the expansion and sustenance of agricultural activities in the North-West geo-political zone of the country, Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State has said.

Politician, businessman and statesman, Chief Don Etiebet, was an early enthusiast for democracy who memorably established the National Centre Party of Nigeria, NCPN, in those difficult days of General Sanni Abacha, when the democratic space was saturated with the foul odour of regimented politics. He had left his position as minister of petroleum in the Abacha regime to give life to an alternative voice to the cacophony of political wanderers championing Abacha’s transmutation into a civilian president. His independence was, however, brought under check after a spell in detention at the end of which the former minister abandoned his NCPN and his famed presidential aspiration to join the United Nigeria Centre Party, UNCP, one of the supposedly leprous five parties advocating Abacha’s continued rule.

WORRIED by the crisis in Edo State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, ahead of the September 10 governorship election in the state, a group of chiefs in Benin Kingdom sympathetic to the party, Otu Odolevbo – Osioba, has called on the national body of the party to, as a matter of urgency, ban the deputy governor, Dr. Pius Odubu and Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s anointed candidate, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, from contesting the governorship primaries in order to save the party.

On Monday, May 9, 2016, the British ruling class got gossiping about Nigeria over the recent international anti-corruption summit in London. They were all there in that little circle at Buckingham Palace, wining and dining in the afterglow of Queen Elizabeth II’s 90th birthday: the Queen herself, the British Prime Minister, David Cameron; the Speaker of House of Commons, John Bercow and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.

Financial markets across segments have reacted to the quantum increase in the price of petrol with foreign exchange rate and petroleum stocks in the upbeat while money market rates moved in mixed direction. In the foreign exchange market the Naira extended its losses against the US Dollar on Friday following continued demand pressure which had started a day earlier on the heels of the pump price adjustment closing at N350/ USD1, bringing its total depreciation to 7.7 per cent in the first two trading days after the pump price adjustment.

SIX months of exclusive breast-feeding will save 800,000 under five children from childhood killer diseases, expert has disclosed.