A community leader at Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, Apostle (Dr) Clement Tonfawei, popularly known as the Nabodi 1 of the Universe, has said that if given the chance, the locals could rally round government to trail the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA. Apostle Tonfawei, who was among the Niger Delta stakeholders who met with a Federal Government team led by the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu and National Security Adviser, NSA, May 25, in Abuja, said the militants were human beings living in the various communities in the region and the basic thing required to track them was intelligence.

WARRI- ON the record, two persons died and 11 injured in a fresh outbreak of hostilities between Ogbe-Ijoh and Aladja communities in Warri South-West and Udu Local Government Areas of Delta State, but numerous corpses, suspected to be those of cultists hired by one of the parties in the bloody fight, were reportedly littering the wooded area unaccounted for. Farmers, who went to the bush, squealed to leaders of one of two communities, but those that recruited them have not informed the families of the deceased persons of the whereabouts of their wards until date.

The mounting cases of corruption in the country is an indication that our religious leaders have failed in their responsibility to both God and the nation, Reverend Father Godswill Agbagwa has said. Agbagwa who is a Priest of the Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri, Imo state, said the country would have been much better if religious leaders had not placed greater premium on acquisition of wealth, at the detriment of their spiritual mandate.

‎The police yesterday arraigned a 42-year-old businessman, Olatunbosun Ololade, who allegedly obtained the sum of N69.1 million from Stanbic IBTC Bank under false pretence of supplying diesel to 7up bottling company Plc, before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court. The defendant who has no fixed address, is facing a four-count charge of conspiracy, stealing, fraud and forgery, preferred against him by the police.

President Barack Obama made the short but sentimental drive across Washington on Friday to attend his oldest daughter’s high school graduation.