DETECTIVES weekend quizzed some members of the Ondo State House of Assembly, the pay master and the clerk over the crisis that led to the purported sack of the Speaker Jumoke Akindele and other principal officers over an alleged N15 million fraud.

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja 11 has charged all Yoruba associations to make peace with themselves by forging truce that would foster development and peace in the nation.

The Indomitable Lions of Cameroon have fired a serious warning to Nigeria for a place at next year’s World Cup after they upstaged AFCON favourites Senegal to reach the last-four in Gabon.

INVESTORS in the nation’s stock market have lost over N187 billion in the first three weeks of trading in 2017, as market capitalisation of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, closed, Friday, at N9.059 trillion. The market capitalisation which represents the total value of investment by investors in the stock market dropped by 2.03 per cent from N9.246 trillion it opened the year with on January 03, 2017.

OBA of Benin, Omo N’Oba Ewuare 11, has read the riot act to Enigie and Odionweres in his domain for alleged unethical practices with some youths in communities under the guise of new leadership structures.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday declared Mr Johnson Oghuma, the candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, winner of Saturday’s House of Representatives bye-election for Etsako federal constituency of Edo State, after he polled 39,879 votes to defeat his closest rival and candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Jude Imagwe, who polled 18,188 votes.

SKYE Bank’s website www.skyebankng.com has been recognised as one of the most improved bank websites as announced by foremost web ranking Agency, Web Jurist, powered by Philips Consulting in its just-released rating. Skye Bank rose from its previous 18th position in ranking to the 8th position in 2016; beating such traditional leaders as: Access Bank, Diamond Bank, FCMB and Union Bank.

Claims by Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State that three South-East governors are in contact with him towards defecting to the All Progressives Congress, APC, have been debunked by his four colleagues in the zone.

A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP chieftain and a former Special Assistant to Dr. Alex Ekwueme, Mr. Ben Onyechere in a chat with newsmen in Umuahia said that the seemingly unending motions and counter motions over the Abia governorship election tussle was nothing but a conspiracy scripted to make the state ungovernable by those who think they could buy their way to the Abia Government House.

An indigenous oil firm, Brittania-U Nigeria Limited, owned by a female oil magnate, Mrs.Uju Ifejika, has commenced operation in crude oil export terminal in the Niger Delta region.