An Ikeja Chief Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, granted three students N500,000 bail each over alleged gang raping of a female colleague.

MAKURDI—The Benue State Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Mr. Sekav Iortyom, was, yesterday, arrested and arraigned before a Makurdi Chief Magistrate’s Court for criminal conspiracy and culpable homicide.

ABUJA— Against the backdrop of skyrocketing price of kerosene in the country, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday, disclosed that the Federal Government spent $1billion (about N310 billion) on kerosene subsidy in 2015.

ABUJA — President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed palpable fears that Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in the country, especially those in the North-East, were potential Boko Haram members, if not properly resettled.

ABEOKUTA—AN Egba High Chief and a popular businessman, Chief Salimon Ajayi, popularly known as Rantipe, was, yesterday, arraigned before a Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting at Isabo, Abeokuta, for allegedly fraudulently obtaining N105 million from a company, Alarab Properties, a subsidiary of Obasanjo Holdings Limited.

Lagos—A 25-year-old man, Idowu Mohammed, who allegedly defiled a 13-year old girl, was yesterday docked at a Surulere Chief Magistrate’s Court in Lagos.

LAGOS—The families of five of the seven persons kidnapped by militants, Sunday, in Kodjo Farm, located at Igbodu, Epe area of Lagos State, said, yesterday, that the kidnappers had demanded N20 million ransom.

The Nigerian Insurers Association, NIA, has commenced moves to curtail the incursion of state governments into the third party motor insurance business for the purpose of revenue generation.

ENUGU — The “think home; build home,” mantra of the South East Development Initiative, SELDI is now yielding positive results with plans to establish a new $5 billion vehicle manufacturing company in Enugu State. The company would offer employment to about 750 workers.

ONITSHA – It was a red carpet reception for Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, last week in the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra state as industrialists in the commercial city, under the aegis of Habour-Bridge Head Industrialists Association unianimously gave him a rousing welcome to their respective factories.

Professor Wole Soyinka once wrote that: “It would be a distortion of history and an attempt to trivialize the trauma that the Igbo had undergone to suggest – as some commentators have tried to do – that it was the lure of oil wealth that drove them to seek a separate existence.”

The technology arm of iSON Group, iSON Technologies, has urged greater public –private partnership in order to further boost growth and transfer of technology skills.

ABAKALIKI—AMUDO community in Ezza South local government area of Ebonyi State was last weekend agog with celebrations following the wedding ceremony of 81 couples that took place in the area.

The former Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Dr. Ernest Ndukwe has been appointed as the chairman, panel of judges for the 2016 DS-Open Innovation Hackathon Jury made up of seven members.

Makoko water front community with about 40,000 people lack PHC facilities that will attend to healthcare issue of the resident