POLICE in Bayelsa State have arrested a woman for allegedly battering a 13-year-old girl over her refusal to care for her 84-year-old grandmother.

The Super Eagles will be playing their 50th World Cup qualifying home matches when they take on the Fennecs of Algeria at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo next week Saturday.

THE Ogun State government has reportedly dismissed the state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Akeem Ambali, his vice and the state chairman of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), Comrade Dare Ilekoya and 14 others.

INDICATIONS of restiveness have emerged in the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, over recent transfers and postings across the country, as aggrieved policemen have accused the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris, of witch-hunting, tribalism and favouritism.

Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State, yesterday, in Calabar, presented an Appropriation Bill of N301 billion for 2017 to the state House of Assembly for approval.

Gambian women national team keeper, Fatim Jawara-Jawara has died in a boat accident on the Mediterranean en route to Europe last weekend.

It was a very sad day for troops fighting the war on insurgency in North East as five soldiers, three vigilante members and a civilian JTF were killed by Boko Haram insurgents, Sunday, while 19 other military men sustained gunshot injuries in an ambush by the terrorists.

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, has said that the judiciary, being the arbiter of disputes, cannot be left out in the transformations of the internet age and therefore, advocated a modern judiciary.

The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Professor Itse Sagay, SAN, and the immediate past Director-General of Nigerian Law School, Professor Tahir Mamman, SAN, have flayed the National Assembly for removing the control of the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, and Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, from the executive, saying the plan will fail.

Leading human rights activist, Femi Falana, SAN, has insisted that the Judges arrested over corrupt allegations of corruption must be arraigned in court to serve as deterrent to others.

Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Kastina State, has advised the President of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association,CPA, Rt Hon. Acho Ihim, to use his position to make laws that would strengthen the African continent.

Governors elected on the platform of All Progressives Congress, APC, have formally written President Muhammadu Buhari, expressing their displeasure with many of his recent appointments.

A Lugbe Grade 1 Area Court, yesterday, sentenced a 35-year-old cook, Yakubu Mohammed, to two months in prison for escaping from police custody.

Algeria coach, Georges Leekens will spend between Wednesday and Friday studying the tape of the 2-1 win the Super Eagles posted over Zambia in their 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers in Ndola Zambia.

Ijaw Motoring Group, IMG, has described a newspaper report linking late General Azazi’s Lagos residence to a criminal hideout as wicked and unacceptable.