Ahmed Salkida, one of the three people declared wanted by the Nigerian Army for allegedly aiding the release of a Boko Haram video showcasing the missing Chibok girls, arrived the country last night.

IN a bid to battle the rising crime rate in the State, Abia Police Command yesterday, paraded 21 suspected criminals for various criminal activities, including kidnapping, armed robbery and car snatching.

The Enugu State government has approved the award of contracts for 35 capital projects comprising the construction of roads, bridges, schools and boreholes across the 17 local government areas of the state.

THE Federal government, Monday commissioned a N350 million ultra-modern South East Virology Centre in Abakaliki with a pledge to partner the Ebonyi State government in an effort to instil effective management in the running of the Health facility.

Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has announced that the long awaited Local Government election in the state will now hold January, 2017.

As part of efforts to grow annual food production in the country, over N100 million worth of input have been distributed free to selected Benue farmers to boost cassava production in the state.

CONTROVERSY still trails the land dispute between two neighbouring communities of Abagana in Njikoka Local Government Area and Ukpo in Dunukofia Local Government Area, with the Anambra State Police Commissioner, Mr. Sam Okaula threatening to arrest more people found to be involved in what he described as arson, murder and other sundry offences.

The contest between Rotimi Akeredolu, Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN), who yesterday emerged as the All Progressives Congress, APC governorship candidate and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP candidate, Eyitayo Jegede, SAN could make the Ondo election the battle of lawyers.

THE deployment of arms and military operational machinery in the Niger Delta is a clear pointer to the imminent take-off of “Operation Crocodile Smile” aimed at securing the nation’s economic interests in the oil-rich region.

The Department of State Services, DSS, yesterday, in its interim report, indicted the operator, spinning Tea Cup at Oakland Recreational Park, Enugu, where three kids died after a malfunction July 12.

GOVERNOR Simon Lalong of Plateau State has resuscitated the dying Plateau Investment and Property Company, PIPC, to assist his government in driving the state’s economy and improve its internally generated revenue, IGR.

THE Centre for Democratic Development Research and Training, CEDDERT, in Zaria, and ENABLE2, a Department for International Development, DFiD, project, will, Thursday, hold a seminar on the farmer/herdsmen conflicts in communities across Kaduna, Katsina and Zamfara states.

Former Deputy Governor of Benue State, Chief Stephen Lawani, has called on Nigerians to spare a thought for the less-privileged members of the society as the world marks International Day of Charity.

The blame-game between the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over the recession in the nation’s economy raged on, yesterday, in Abuja as the ruling party advised President Muhammadu Buhari not to be distracted by the “insensitive comments” of the opposition.

LAGOS—Olowakemi Etu, a mother of three, hacked her husband with a cutlass, while he was sleeping in their Erinlu abode in Ijebu-Ode area of Ogun State, out of jealousy over his relationship with another woman.