Rice sellers in Sango-Ota market in Ado Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State yesterday, alleged that men of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, broke into their shops and carted away 18,000 bags of rice in the wee hours of the day.

OWERRI—About four persons reportedly lost their lives, yesterday, when a gang of robbers stormed a bank on Wetheral Road in Owerri, Imo State capital.

THE National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has said it will not allow corps members to participate in the supplementary election slated for February 25, in Etche Local Government Area of the Rivers State.

The Managing Director (MD) of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority ( NSIA), Mr. Uche Orji, yesterday, raised a fresh hope of the completion of the multi-billion Naira Second Niger Bridge linking Asaba and Onitsha in Delta and Anambra States, respectively.

A human rights group, Campaign for Democracy, CD, yesterday, condemned what it termed as indiscriminate shootings and killings of members of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, by those it identified as Nigerian security forces.

NIGERIAN Breweries Plc has rewarded its distributors and transporters nationwide for the value they added to the company’s business in 2016 despite tough operating environment and competition in the industry.

A member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the House of Representatives, Emmanuel Ukoette, yesterday, announced his defection to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

ABUJA— A native doctor, Mr. Bala Tangalu, was yesterday, docked before an Abuja high court at Jabi over alleged N2.5 million fraud by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

UNITED Labour Congress of Nigeria, ULC, has called for the recall of some staff dismissed by the management of the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Umuahia, urging the Minister of Health to intervene in what it called the “unfair dismissal” of workers.

CONTROVERSY-prone –or is it controversy-courting- Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is at it again. It has not been long since he stirred the hornet’s nest on the typical northerners’ penchant for building mosques even at the expense of child education. Nothing, in all fairness, could have been truer about my Muslim brothers.

The people of Ogbe-Ijoh, headquarters of Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, yesterday, expressed concern over the attitude of workers at the council secretariat with regard to the land dispute between them and neighbouring Aladja community.

As a woman who has already been in the terrain, I know that several women are very poor especially the widows, and we have those who are not widows but are equally poor; so my first priority is to give them interest free loans, while trading, buying and selling including farming.

—YOUTHS of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State, have said that with the achievements recorded so far by the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration in its first 100 days in office, the state was set to become the economic hub of the nation.

CORONA Secondary School, AgbaraOgun State has urged schools to seize the opportunity of spending greater hours with students to complement the missing values of their lives.

The Federal Government workers under the aegis of Senior Staff Association of Statutory Corporations and Government Owned Companies, SSASCGOC, has urged the Federal government to take immediate and concrete steps to reposition the Nigerian economy with a view to reducing the present hardship of Nigerians.