A young man stabbed two female students at their high school in western Canada on Tuesday, killing one and wounding the other, who was hospitalized in stable condition, police said.

The Nigerian Gas Association, yesterday, lamented that they are currently being owed more than N110 billion.

President Muhamadu Buhari has said that peace is critical to the development of Niger Delta.

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has appealed for calm in the wake of the death of six citizens of the state including a mother, her three kids, and a neighbour’s two children, who were reported to have died after eating a cassava flour meal the woman had prepared.

REUBEN ABATI’S widely published piece, “The Spiritual Side of Aso Villa,” deserves very critical attention for its implication for accountability. That implication, which I consider harmful, is that it creates grounds for anyone who has operated and may operate from Aso Villa, our country’s seat of power, to argue their exoneration for any wrong attributable to them on the grounds that the villa, as Abati would have us believe, is a place where “the forces of darkness” hold sway and control the actions of its inhabitants. Indeed, if we accept that people act under the influence of such forces which they cannot resist, why hold them accountable for their actions even by law, which considers acting under duress – in this case the duress of demons – as a basis for the exculpation of an accused person?

Stakeholders from the oil-rich Niger Delta, yesterday, demanded that the region be included in the allocation and ownership of oil blocs in the country.

An Iyaganku Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ibadan, yesterday, remanded a 50-year-old man, Fatai Busari, in Agodi Prison for allegedly causing the death of his concubine during lovemaking, because he took local sex-enahncing drugs.

THE Senate, yesterday, unanimously, threw out President Muhammadu Buhari’s request for external loan of $29.96 billion to execute key infrastructural projects across the country between 2016 and 2018 because the letter conveying it was not accompanied by a borrowing plan.

Over 1500 employees of Erisco Foods limited are about losing their jobs as the company has begun the process of winding up its tomatoes paste factory in the country sequel to relocating to China.

A Magistrate’s Court, sitting in Okpanam, Oshimili North Local Government Area, Delta State, has remanded the state Chairman of Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT, Jemiriegbe Jonathan, and three other officials of the union in prison.