The Ogun State Police Command has smashed a robbery/kidnap syndicate that has been terrorising residents of Ijebu-Ode and Shagamu areas.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, said it has perfected strategies that will aid it to conduct a conclusive governorship election in Ondo State.

The Ogbosuwari community in Ekeremor Local Government Area in Bayelsa State, yesterday, has urged the Nigeria Agip Oil Company, NAOC, to stop oil leaks in the area.

PDP candidate Eyitayo Jegede, SAN, has assured youths in the state that his policy as governor would make them employers of labour instead of job hunters.

The National Association of Nigerian Footballers, NANF, has thrown its weight behind the Chairman of League Management Company, Mallam Shehu Dikko who escaped abduction by men suspected to be security agents on arrival from Zambia at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja.

SENATE President, Bukola Saraki, said yesterday that the 8th Senate was prepared to streamline Nigeria’s multiple taxation system towards improving the ease of doing business in the country.

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abia State, Prince Benjamin Apugo has denied being remanded in prison custody by the Federal High Court, Umuahia, Abia State, over a land deal and accused his traducers of spreading false information.

Abuja—Details of how seven people looted N24 billion police pension funds were narrated to an Abuja High Court, yesterday, by a prosecution witness, Mustapha Gadanya.

FORMER Green Eagles winger, Adokiye Amiesimaka has warned Nigerians, particularly, Super Eagles players and their technical crew not to go into premature celebration, with the thought that Russia 2018 ticket has been achieved following Nigeria’s 2-1 away victory over Zambia at the weekend.

LAGOS—A Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, yesterday, sentenced a real estate agent, Femi Alabi, to three years imprisonment for defrauding 21 accommodation seekers of N6.9 million.

MAKURDI—An 18-year-old Senior Secondary 3 student of Jesus College, Otukpo, Benue State, Godwin Ejeh, has been reportedly electrocuted in the school hostel.

THE Senate, yesterday, decried the flexible penalties imposed on drug offenders by judges in the country. This came on a day the bill to amend the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Act passed second reading.

SUPER Eagles captain John Obi Mikel said Chelsea players were fitter and better under present coach Antonio Conte, unlike last season when they struggled for form under former coach Jose Mourinho.

MRS. Essien Bassey, a Mathematics teacher at Pegasus High School, Eket, Akwa Ibom State, has said that her method of “preaching mathematics like a church sermon” has helped greatly in sustaining the interest of her students in the subject.

By Dayo Adesulu MASTER Salisu Ibrahim, Miss Favour Uwene and Master Babatimileyin Daomi have won the 2016 Indomie Independence Day Award (IIDA) for Nigerian heroes. Declaring these winners on Saturday at Victoria Island, Dufil Ltd., makers of Indomie said Babatimileyin emerged winner in the Intellectual Bravery category, Favour won Physical Bravery category, just as Salisu […]