Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III has expressed delight at the level of popularity, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State enjoys in the state, including among non-indigenes, saying it is commendable.

THE Abia State Electoral Commission (ABISIEC) has declared that the ruling PDP won the chairmanship seats in all the 17 councils in the election held Wednesday.

Mr. Tunji Adebayo has emerged the overall gross winner and national representative, at this year’s BMW Golf National championship hosted by Coscharis Motors at the Lakowe Lake Golf club in Lagos. Adebayo actually finished 3rd place in the men’s category 1 but achieved gross 79 to emerge the overall winner. He will be representing BMW Nigeria next year in Dubai at the Emirate Golf club from March 5 – 10, 2017.

Organised labour on the platform of Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, ASCSN, yesterday, urged the Federal Government to release its counterpart funds to the National Pension Commission, PenCom, so that thousands of retired public servants could be paid their entitlements.

PORT HARCOURT—POLICE, yesterday, engaged robbers operating at a new generation bank at Rumuolumeni area of Port Harcourt in a gun battle, leading to the arrest of three of them, with a policeman sustaining serious gunshot injuries.