No fewer than 1,076 suspects are currently on the awaiting trial list at the Makurdi Medium Prison, out of the 1,375 inmates currently being housed at the facility.

ON behalf of all users of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, I am calling on the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) to immediately get German Construction company Julius Berger to stop the wickedness in high places that has been going on for months now on that major road.

The Nigerian Army has launched Operation Motorcycle Battalion aimed at the use of motorcycles in its operation against insurgency, especially in rough terrains and reduction of response time to emergencies.

PORT HARCOURT—SOME weeks ago, I travelled from Asaba in Delta State, the Regional Head-quarters of my company, Vanguard newspapers in the Niger Delta region to Rivers State on an official assignment.

The Civil Liberty Organization,CLO,Enugu Chapter, yesterday, lauded the Nigeria Judicial Council, NJC, over last Friday’s sack of the Chief Judge of Enugu State, Justice Innocent Umezurike over abuse of his office by accepting gratifications from litigants.

ONE of the governorship aspirants that participated in the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship primaries in Ondo State, Tayo Alasoadura, yesterday, said he was disappointed at aggrieved aspirants, who rejected the conduct of the primaries.

Ibadan—FORMER Governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja has described the proposed creation of 35 Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs, in the state as a plan to avoid the conduct of local government elections, which is yet to be conducted five years after assumption of Governor Abiola Ajimobi in office.

ENUGU—PRESIDENT of Ogbete Main Market Traders Association, OMMTA, Chief Temple Ude, has posited that the institutionalisation of state owned police in all the 36 states of the Federation, will curb the menace being caused by Fulani herdsmen.

THE crisis in the South west chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, took another turn after the Ekiti State chapter flayed Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State over his recent visit and commendation of Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State.

ASABA—THE crisis rocking All Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta State took a dangerous twist, yesterday, as the Olorogun O’Tega Emerhor faction accused the other faction of placing charms at the entrance to the party’s secretariat in Asaba, the state capital.

ABAKALIKI—Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has advised the state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, to check fake pastors whose activities have continued to constitute a threat to true Christian worship.

GBEKEBOR—FLOOD has submerged Gbekebor community in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, rendering more than 200 residents homeless and destroying property estimated at over N120 million.

PORT HARCOURT—SOME Niger Delta leaders opened up, yesterday, on how the conflict between the Pan-Niger Delta Coastal Stakeholders’ Forum steered by Chief Edwin Clark and a new group of leaders also from the region, led by Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, can collaborate in the interest of the region.

UNIVERSITY of Ilorin in Kwara State, has emerged the 2016 university of first choice among student-applicants as the foremost citadel of learning in the country, followed by sixteen others drawn from the federal, state and private universities, the Economic Confidential can authoritatively report. In a new report obtained and carefully computed and analyzed by Economic […]

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abia State, Prince Ben Apugo, has accused the immediate past governor of the state, Senator Theodore Orji of masterminding his arrest by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.