I ARRIVED Yola on Monday this week, for my first visit since 2013. But the prelude to this trip came four days before the gubernatorial election last year. As is my wont, I had written my column in the early hours of the Wednesday before the election, during which I endorsed a couple of candidates: Kashim Shettima in Borno; Nasir El-Rufai in Kaduna; Aminu Tambuwal in Sokoto; Umar Al-Makura in Nasarawa; Aminu Bello Masari in Katsina and Umar Jibrilla Bindow in Adamawa.

The trial of the 17 students of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, involved in the violent protest that rocked the institution on Sunday night was, yesterday, adjourned till tomorrow for further hearing by an Ado Ekiti Chief Magistrate’s Court.

The Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta, code named Operation Pulo Shield, yesterday, said that its operatives have arrested the alleged mastermind of the attack on Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC, manifold in Gbobokiri, Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

The Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, said yesterday that the Army cannot probe ex-service chiefs involved in procurement of weapons for the fight against Boko Haram because they had retired.

Two female bombers attacked an Internally-Displaced Persons, IDP, camp in Dikwa Local Government Area, Borno State, at about 6:30a.m. yesterday, and detonated their Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDS, killing about 58 persons.