No fewer than 20 children have been killed by measles outbreak in 18 Local Government areas of Sokoto State in the last 23 days, a health official has revealed.

AHEAD of the 2016 governorship election in Edo State, a governorship aspirant of All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has urged other aspirants and leaders of the party to see the forthcoming primaries of the party as a brotherly contest so as to avoid bad blood within the party.

Niger Delta ex-militant leader, Ebikamowei Victor Ben, alias Boyloaf, has warned politicians to steer clear of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, which he described as a security package aimed at restoring peace and stability to the area.

PROPERTY worth several billions of naira have been destroyed in the oil-rich states of Delta and Bayelsa as a result of spill involving 35,000 barrels of oil from ruptured oil pipelines.

lagos—Hundreds of passengers of Aero Contractors Airline were yesterday stranded at the Murtala Muhammed Airport Domestic Terminal, MMA2, Lagos, due to the inability of the airline to buy aviation fuel otherwise known as JET A1 for its aircraft to ferry it’s passengers to their various destinations.

THE five-man ad-hoc committee set up by Delta State House of Assembly to investigate the award and execution of the multi-billion naira Independent Power Project, IPP, yesterday, visited the project in Oghara, Ethiope West Local Government Area of the state with a promise to ensure its completion.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has scheduled the Edo State governorship election for September 10, 2016. It has also scheduled that of Ondo State for November 26, 2016.

The executive team of the Nigerian Institution of Highway Engineers lauded the Management of AG Dangote for the use of cement to construct 23 kilometer road from Itori to Ibeshe in Ogun State, offering to partner with the company to better enhance its operations.

lagos—Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency’s, NIMASA’s Assistant Director, Financial Services Department, Mrs Olamide Odusanya, yesterday, told a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, that a former Director-General of the agency, Patrick Akpobolokemi, approved the transfer of over N1billion into one of the accounts opened by the agency without the approval of the Accountant-General of the Federation.

AS the general election of the Directors Guild of Nigeria, DGN, holds this morning in Asaba, Delta State, expectations are high as pundits are busy, predicting the outcome of the election.