LEADERS of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, Chief Edwin Clark and Obong Victor Attah, have asked people of the region to give the federal government time to respond to the 16-point demands presented to President Muhammadu Buhari last Tuesday.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has questioned the brother of a Federal High Court judge, Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, over the movement of hard currency into his accounts in a commercial bank.

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has raised the alarm that the contract papers on construction of Government Press in Abuja were missing.

Reasons the Federal Government delayed the filing of charges preferred against judges suspected of corrupt practices in the course of their duties, emerged last night.

IT was in 1885 that Otto von Bismarck , the first Chancellor of Germany called a conference of the heads of all European nations in a bid to amicably share the African continent and avoid fighting each other over land in a foreign and very environmentally hostile territory. So they sat at a round table in Berlin and placed the map of Africa on the table and started drawing lines, sometimes across it, sometimes dividing towns into different countries.

Rivers State Police Command, yesterday, confirmed the arrest of three persons for allegedly printing fake ballot papers for next month’s re-run legislative election in the state.

The Federal Government, weekend, said it would undertake a review of the pricing template for Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol, to forestall a further increase in the price of the commodity.

TO forestall clashes between host communities and herdsmen in Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State, Chairman, Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, Abia State chapter, Alhaji Hassan Buba, has called on communities to demand the telephone numbers of herdsmen, who come into their areas to graze their cattle.

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OFFICERS from Ogun State Police Command have arrested two Fulani herdsmen for allegedly killing another herdsman, whose cattle they were trying to steal, at Itadodo area of Ofada in Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of the state.

A video footage of artillery weapons allegedly bought by the Jonathan’s Administration shortly before the 2015 election and being used by the military in its operation to recapture Boko Haram held territories in the north east Nigeria has emerged.

THE House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Insurance investigating alleged infractions and misappropriation of funds in Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, weekend, threatened to issue an arrest warrant on the Comptroller-General, CG, of Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, Col. Hamid Ali, retd, if he failed to honour the invitation to appear before the committee on Wednesday.

THERE was great outpouring of emotions yesterday at the send-off party in honour of the out-going governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, as leaders of All Progressives Congress, APC, led by its national chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, and the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaeci, paid glowing tributes to the former President of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and renowned labour leader.

OIL producing communities in Delta State, weekend, urged the Federal Government to discontinue further disbursement of the 13 per cent derivation fund to Niger Delta governors, saying the money did not belong to state governments, but host communities.

The factional Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Nwabueze Okafor, has denied the purported fusion of the party with the United Progressives Party, UPP, saying it was not a true situation of things.