Uneasy calm pervades Mopamuro Local Government Area over the murder of a community leader and former Councillor who represented in Okagi/Ayede Amuro Ward, Hon. Oluwole, a.k.a Serebe. He was murdered at Ahunrun, the ancestral home of the Okagi people.

In the midst of dire financial straits, the creation of new development areas in Osun State and the equally strange decision to adopt parliamentary system in the local councils has been welcomed and condemned by the different political tendencies in the state

Rivers State Government has said that it has saved about N1 billion through the Bank Verification Number, BVN, validation of civil servants ordered by Governor Nyesom Wike.

The President of Nasrul-lahi-l-Fatih Society, NASFAT, Engr Kamil Bolarinwa has said that in spite of the global attempt to blame the religion for violence and terrorism in some part of the world, is not a threat to Muslims and Islam, just as the Chief Missioner of the society, Shiekh Abdullah Akinbode urged the media to be just in the reportage of news about Islam.

THE legislative arm of Ndokwa East Local Government Area, Delta State, has urged the state House of Assembly to ratify its suspension order on the chairman of the council, Mrs Nkechi Chukwura, over her alleged refusal to render account of income and expenditure of the council’s funds since the inception of her administration.

An Uyo-based non-governmental organisation, Policy Alert, has called on the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly to ensure that the state’s proposed Internal Revenue Service Bill protects the rights of the most vulnerable taxpayers, especially women and others in the informal sector of the economy.

Workers of Enugu State, under the auspices of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, have lent their support to Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi’s economic revolution agenda aimed at job creation and boosting of the state’s revenue.

The Akwa Ibom State Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Dr. Gabriel Ada, yesterday, assured that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in the state will conduct free and fair election tomorrow, in the five state constituencies and one senatorial district (Akwa Ibom North-East) of the state where re-run election was ordered by the appellate court.

President of FROT Group, Frank Momoh, believes his company’s sponsorship pact with the Edo State Football Association will revitalize football in the state.

ABUJA—The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, granted bail to the former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh (retd), to the tune of N2 billion.

Imo State Government has described as “most unfortunate and grossly embarrassing”, the attempt by members of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to disrupt Governor Rochas Okorocha’s speech at the world-famous Chatham House, London, which he was invited to deliver.

The Youth wing of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya Nigeria, rose from its two-day Inter-religious conference with a resolve that followers of their faith, should endevour to be committed to the establishment and sustenance of peace; and at all times ensure the building of enduring peace among people in their respective communities.

ABUJA— The Nigerian Army, yesterday, justified its invasion of Ogoni in Rivers State, saying that its security informant in the state was allegedly buried alive by the leader of a cult group known as Island cult.

ABUJA— THE Senate, yesterday, threw its weight behind the Federal Government’s unbundling of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, saying the government did not breach the law establishing the corporation.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is making a headway in its bid to pin down all those who helped themselves to the $2.1 billion cash in the office of the National Security Adviser meant for the procurement of arms.