The Police in Anambra State have arrested Ekene Aboji, 35, a prophet with Jesus Miracle Ministry, Ifite-Awka, for allegedly defiling a 13-year-old boy after a vigil.

FOUR power generating sets belonging to Mirage Hotels owned by Chief Edem Duke, former Minister for Culture and Tourism have been carted away by Sypet Oil and Chemical Limited over an alleged N52 million debt.

Erosion is now threatening to cut off the failed Onuebum Road linking Otuoke, former President Goodluck Jonathan home town in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

LAGOS — The Federal Government, yesterday, attributed its inability to adequately fund major projects, including those of the armed forces, to recession currently facing the country.

LAGOS — The United States Mission in Nigeria has opened communication with the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, towards clarifying allegations of religious and sectional partisanship in last week’s visit to Nigeria of the U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. John Kerry.

Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, last night, cleared the air on the claim by a U.S-based Nigerian lawyer that he would frustrate the repatriation of N218.3 billion Abacha loot unless he was paid his legal fees.

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 60-year-old man and two others alleged to have repeatedly gang-raped a 13-year-old primary six pupil until she became pregnant, in Majidun area of Lagos.

AN Ijaw group, Niger Delta Security Watch Organisation, NDSWO, has differed with the Warri Study Group, WSG, an Itsekiri group, over the latter’s denunciation of the purported interface by Ijaw leaders, led by Chief Edwin Clark, under the auspices of a pan-Niger Delta coastal states, which it described as an Ijaw agenda.

AHEAD of the Public Hearing on the proposed amendment of the Customs and Excise Management Act, CEMA, the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding Practice in Nigeria, CRFFN has commenced moves against the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, over some part of the document that will work against agents if the amended CEMA is passed into law.

United States of America’s Secretary of State, John Kerry, made a two-day whistle-stop in Nigeria penultimate Monday and Tuesday. His itinerary included a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, Northern governors and the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Abubakar Sa’ad III.

THE Anambra state government has concluded plans to plant one million trees in the state as part of efforts to curb the menacing effects of gully erosion in the state.

Obagie Nunuamen community in Orhionmwon Local Government Area of Edo State, has dragged Presco Plc before an Edo State High Court sitting in Benin, over the alleged take over of their land measuring 14,436,823 hectares by the company.

The Executive Director on Public Affairs to Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, Hon. Henry Okpamen has urged the people of Edo state to support the All Progressive Congress, APC, governorship candidate in the forthcoming election in the state, Mr. Godwin Obaseki.

For a host of prominent Anambra indigenes, all roads led to the Governors Lodge, Awka, last Saturday, as the state celebrated, in style, 25 years of eventful statehood.

Smartphone maker, Inifnix Mobility, in partnership with online retailer, Jumia and MTN Nigeria, has launched a new smartphone, the Infinix Note 3 which is aimed at tackling the notorious menace of smartphone short battery lifespan.