HAVING become apparent that the Nigeria Football Federation cannot fund the Super Eagles for its 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Zambia on October 9, the Senate has charged the Ministry of Sport to bail the FA out.

PORT HARCOURT—It was the handiwork of the devil, said a 28-year-old man, Mr. Bethel Samuel, yesterday, while confessing to Rivers State Police officers how he raped a three-year-old girl at Rumuolumeni community in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state.

THE Patriotic Citizens for Okowa, a political pressure group in Delt State, has honoured Governor Ifeanyi Okowa with an award of Excellence for Good Governance, for his exemplary leadership style and developmental strides across the state within a short period in office.

The Federal Government said yesterday it did not immediately comply with the judgement of an ECOWAS Court to release former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, retd, because of the need to study the document.

The Federal Government has stated its readiness to return all internally displaced persons, IDPs, to their homes, in a move termed Operation Back Home, that would see the return of over two million IDPs to their original abodes.

Gunmen have abducted a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, Mr. Nnamdi Abbah.

LAGOS—There was pandemonium, yesterday, in Iponri area of Lagos, when hoodlums tried to forcefully free a commercial bus impounded by some officials of Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, for allegedly violating traffic rules.

The Counseling Unit of Students Affairs Office, University of Lagos, Unilag, has organised an open competition for students of the institution.

Teachers in Imo State, yesterday called on the State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, to fulfill all the promises he made to them, just as they alleged that they have not been paid their salaries since January 2016.

MEMBERS of National Union of Air Transport Association Employees, NUATE, and Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, ATSSSAN, yesterday, staged a protest at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, to register their disapproval to the planned concession of four of the major airports across the country.

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In a bid to give hope to the less privileged students, a Non-Governmental Organization, Transform A Life, TAL, has given out educational materials ranging from books, pens, cleaners and sharpeners, to primary school indigent pupils in Araromi Community in Ajegunle, Lagos State.

THE Lagos State Signage and Advertisement Agency, LASAA, has warned against flouting of the laws regulating signage displays in commercial centres and market places in Lagos, noting that it would step up enforcement of the existing policy on proper display of signage.

A 35-year-old teacher, Chukwu Ndubuisi, was yesterday, arraigned before an Ogudu Magistrate’s Court, Ikeja magisterial district, Lagos, for allegedly raping a six-year-old pupil (names withheld) within the school (name withheld) premises.

There are two events that are of major significance this week. The first is the birthday of a man of immense integrity and a great son of the Yoruba by the name of Olusegun Rahman Mimiko who was 62 years old on October 3rd.