Worried by the increasing security breaches occasioned by politicians who use Government vehicle numbers plates in the state,the administration of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, yesterday, ordered the beneficiaries to return them as failure to do so would amount to acting in a manner likely to sabotage government.

AN Edo State High Court sitting in Benin, yesterday, granted bail to House of Representatives member, representing Etsako federal constituency of Edo State, Mr Philip Shauibu.

Following recent successes recorded by the nation’s security forces in the fight against Boko Haram terrorists and the recovery of all territories hitherto taken by the group, the Police High Command has deployed a team of officers, led by the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of Operations, DIG Sotonye Wakama, to evaluate and assess the epicentre of the battle for return of civil authority.

CONTRARY to reports that he has stepped down as Speaker of Bayelsa State House of Assembly following an alleged court judgment to that effect, Mr Konbowei Benson, has said that he remains the Speaker.

Supporters of former governor of Zamfara State, Ahmed Sani Yerima, yesterday attacked staff of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Offenses Commission, ICPC, in Gusau shortly after he was arraigned before Bello Shinkafi of High Court 4 for allegedly diverting over N1 billion appropriated for the renovation of a dam to other uses.

A group, Kogi Democratic Initiative, KDI, has called on the All Progressives Congress, APC, not to take the laws into its hands by fielding a candidate that emerged through a primary election outside the stipulated time for the forthcoming senatorial election, claiming that would amount to abuse of rule of law.

ONITSHA—A human rights group, International Society for Civil Liberties and the rule of Law, Intersociety has said that it is far better for the detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu to be kept in the prison custody than to remain in the captivity of the Department of State Services, DSS.

Pandemonium broke out simultaneously in different parts of Lagos State yesterday, after fire gutted two coaches of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC; Samsung Showroom and Akwill Fibre Company, in Ebute Metta, Ikeja and Iju axis respectively.

Cross River State governor, Prof. Ben Ayade, has said that he remains a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who simply has a good working relationship with President Muhammadu Buhari for the good of the people of his state.

ASABA—The kidnapped king of Ubulu-Uku Kingdom in Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State, HRM Obi Akaeze Ofulue III, has been reportedly killed by his abductors.

KANO—It was a painful end for a 22-year-old housewife, Aisha Abdullahi, who was raped to death by unknown person(s) at her matrimonial home at Ungogo quarters, on the outskirts of Kano metropolis.

A member of Delta State House of Assembly, Mr Daniel Yingi, has commended the state governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, for his commitment to the empowerment of youths of the state to be entrepreneurs through his SMART agenda.

ABUJA—Two of the world’s richest men, Bill Gates and Aliko Dangote, have committed $100 million, about N1.97 billion, to fighting malnutrition in Nigeria.

FRESH facts have emerged that the Regent of Oraukwu community in Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State left his palace to avoid performing his statutory function of presenting a select candidate for the traditional ruler of the town because his favoured candidate did not win.

Jubilation erupted,yesterday, in the camp of the General Superintendent of Assemblies of God Church, Rev. Paul Emeka over the Supreme Court’s decision that struck out an application brought before it by Rev. Chidi Okoroafor seeking to restrain the former from parading himself as the GS of the church.