Ado-Ekiti—Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, has canvassed for dialogue as the only way out of the recurrent violence in the Niger Delta, saying waging war against the militants would only exacerbate the already volatile situation in the region.

SOLDIERS from the 222 Battalion of the Nigerian Army, have arrested two persons in Idheze community, Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta State, following the suspected vandalization of a major Nigeria Agip Oil Company, NAOC, pipeline in the area.

EDO State chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Dan Orbih, has said that a hundred Modu Sheriffs cannot suspend him and his executive from performing their functions as they were duly elected by the party faithful in the state.

The decomposing body of Godwin Abuul, the lecturer in the Theatre Arts Department of the College of Education, Oju, Benue State, who was allegedly murdered by his wife, name withheld, in connivance with her siblings over alleged extra-marital affairs, has been recovered from River Katsina-Ala by police

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