Pentecostal Bishops Forum, yesterday, told President Muhammadu Buhari that there was hunger in the land.
The clerics made their feelings known after a closed door meeting with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Their cry came as President Buhari, at the campaign of All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship election rally in Benin City, Edo State, assured Nigerians that the nation’s economy would soon get out of its current doldrums, even as Vice President Osinbajo blamed the country’s economic quagmire on bad governance and corruption of past leaderships.

Asaba—For the over 4,500 property owners on designated government lands in Asaba, it was a huge relief as Delta State has made good its decision not to demolish their houses as it inaugurated a task force to regularise the titles for owners of such buildings.

Salkida said to have close contacts with Boko Haram leaders, was arrested, Monday, just as he arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, apparently to present himself to the military authorities which had earlier declared him wanted, along with two others, namely Ahmad Bolori and Aisha Wakil.

THE way things are going in Edo State in the campaigns to the forthcoming governorship election, there is this fear by independent observers that it will not be conducted in a free and fair manner.

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has described the current level of starvation in the country as unprecedented in the history of the country.

PORT HARCOURT—The remains of four Marine Policemen floated in the early hours of yesterday, on Abonnema River in Akukutoru Local Government Area of Rivers State.

THE chairman Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, Rev. Dr. Goddy Madu, yesterday blamed the rampaging activities of herdsmen across the country on the silence of President Muhammadu Buhari.

After four years of pioneering the revolution that dramatically changed the face of retail shopping in Nigeria, Jumia, Nigeria’s number one online shopping solution company is poised to consolidate this achievement with innovative concepts that will further expand her brand equity in Nigeria’s business terrain. The company outlined her plans last Thursday at a media round table organized for a select team of editors held at the company’s head office in Ikeja.

ABUJA— Former governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, yesterday, described as false and shocking the claim by the British government that it was unaware of alleged funding of his investigation and conviction by the Department for International Development, DfID.

THE patriarch of the Ibru family and chairman of the Ibru organization, Olorogun Michael Christopher Onajirhevbe Ibru, is dead.

Football Association of Zambia president Andrew Kamanga says qualifying to the 2018 World Cup after failing to qualify to the Africa Cup is an ambitious target that is achievable with adequate preparation and hard work.

Super Eagles technical adviser, Gernot Rohr said the national team will not play its games at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium in Uyo, until there is an improvement on the bad condition of the playing pitch.

ABUJA—Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said government was seriously considering the option of issuing visa on arrival to foreign investors and other businessmen from outside the country.

Abuja—The Defence Headquarters, yesterday, took a swipe at the new tactics of militant groups springing up in the Niger Delta region with a view to causing distraction to its various security strategies and operations to rid the region of criminals, saying that the military and other security agencies would remain focused and un-intimidated while displaying professionalism in ensuring adequate security to lives and property.

PORT HARCOURT—Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, has dismissed as tissues of lies, allegations by the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state that Governor Nyesom Wike commissioned projects completed by former governor of the state, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi.