The APC candidate, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has been endorsed by the Ovia North East Local Government Area Community Development Association.

Rivers state Police Commissioner, Mr Mobolaji Odesanya has promised that the Police command under his watch will be apolitical in the state.

NOBEL Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has said that some Niger Delta militant groups had reached out to him in their efforts at interfacing with the Federal Government on the current militancy in the region, pleading with the government to genuinely listen to the agitators.

Two graduating students of Imo State Polytechnic, Umuagwo in Ohaji/Egbema local government area of the state, were reportedly burnt to death last Wednesday.

Players and officials of the Nigeria Olympic Eagles are yet to receive their remaining allowances after winning bronze medal at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

I would never allow my child to marry the child of my ex, even if we parted amicably,how much more getting married to the child of the one who jilted me, knowing that the same blood runs though their veins. Besides, I can’t imagine imagine visiting my ex as an in-law. Let him remain an ex and let my child look for someone else to marry, if he or she truly loves me as a mother.

Six suspected electricity vandals have been arrested in Enugu and Abia states as cases of vandalism of power installations rise in the South Eastern states, bringing the number of vandalism cases on EEDC installations in the zone in recent times to 78.

Borno State government has suspended central feeding of internally-displaced persons, IDPs, following their protest in Maiduguri, yesterday.

ABEOKUTA—Joachin Iroko, the man who named his dog Buhari and was arraigned for conduct likely to cause breach of peace has finally regained freedom, four days after he was remanded in Ibara Prisons in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

ABUJA—The Federal Government has announced the re-opening of eight satellite prisons in Bauchi State for the North East. The prisons were earlier shut, due to the wave of Boko Haram insurgency in the zone.

THE National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, yesterday, warned traditional medicine practitioners in the country against using herbal drugs on patients when such drug has not been confirmed or approved by the agency.

Ahead of Anambra 2017 governorship election, former executive member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Okechukwu Okafor, has said it had become imperative to bring a better material from Anambra North senatorial zone to complete the two tenures to be enjoyed by the zone.

Akure—The 22-year-old National Diploma, ND, student of the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, Ondo State, Oweniwe Chukwudi, who murdered his girlfriend, has denied killing her for ritual purpose, but for the fun of it.

No fewer than 30, 000 underprivileged children drawn from three communities in Warri, Delta State will this year benefit from the Inner City Mission Children Food Bank, which is being sponsored by the Warri zone of the Christ Embassy.

Watta is an Afrobeat song which is gradually getting airplay on airwaves. The song was inspired by the late Fela’s Water no get enemy.