LAGOS—Sheriff Oyewole, who allegedly got a family friend’s daughter drunk at a party and raped her, was yesterday sentenced to 19 years imprisonment by a Lagos magistrate, Mrs Kikelomo Ayeye.

LAGOS—NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, led by Ayuba Wabba, yesterday embarked on a nationwide protest against the killing of two workers and injuring of others in Nasarawa State, as well as Imo State government’s new employment policy.

Former Chairman of Delta State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Delta North Senator, Chief Peter Nwaoboshi has been dragged before a Delta State High Court sitting Asaba, for alleged disobidience to an injunction granted by Justice Azinge of the sate High Court arising from the ownership tussle between DavNotch and the Senator (Nwaoboshi) in which all parties were restrained from accessing the parcel of land pending the determination of the substantive suit.

THE Elders Assembly of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ondo State, yesterday, resolved to back Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on his endorsement of one of the aspirants, Dr. Segun Abraham.

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State said, yesterday, that 22 state legislators have started refunding car loans they collected for personal vehicles to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.