SOLDIERS from the 13 Brigade of the Nigerian Army were, yesterday, deployed to the streets of Calabar, the Cross River State capital, as the number of those killed in the raging cult war rose to eight on Monday.

THE pioneer chairperson of the Commonwealth Youth Council, Dr. Ahmed Adamu has berated the All Progressive Congress, APC-led federal government for not giving the youth an opportunity to serve in the federal cabinet.

—A community leader in Ogba Ndoni Egbema Local Government Area of Rivers State, Mr Chikeobi Alali, has been arrested for allegedly disrupting production at an oilfield operated by Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC.

Following a hit-and-run incident in 2013, 41-year-old Mudiaga Olusegun Ebenezer Obiomah has been living a life of travails and as his dream to live a productive and healthy life was shattered.

Not comfortable with goverment silence, retired workers who served the Federal Government in Ogun State, have taken to the streets to protest 14 months unpaid pension and gratuities.

Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly has passed a Bill that makes provisions for the effective administration of Criminal Justice and other related matters in the courts in the state.

CHIEFTAINS of All Progressives Congress, APC, Ethiope East Local Government Area, Delta State, chapter, have, after an enlarged meeting of the party, urged the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party to wade into the factional crisis rocking the party in the various local government areas of the state.

THERE was outrage from notable Nigerians from the South West, yesterday against the one-sided parade of Ile-Ife residents over the recent clash between the Yoruba and Hausa communities in the ancient city.

Disengaged staff of moribund Delta Steel Company, DSC, Ovwian/Aladja, Udu Local Government Aarea, Delta State, have said that the Assets Management Company of Nigeria, AMCON, only paid them 22.5 per cent of what they are being owed.

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has attributed Monday’s massacre of over 30 persons in Zaki-Biam town in Ukum Local Government Area of the state to a wanted militant leader, Terwase Agwaza, also known as Gana.

The Federal Government’s Social Investment Scheme in Edo State has cleared the air on why teachers employed under its N-Power scheme have not been paid, saying, “It was due to one problem or the other in their entries during their initial enrolment into the programme.”

PRESIDENT, Institute of Information Management, Dr. Oyedokun Oyewole, IIM, has said that information management is instrumental in supporting and ensuring adequate implementation of the recently released Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) by the Federal Government.

Warri Boys Association, Lagos chapter, has commended the Federal Government for directing all International Oil Companies operating in the Niger Delta region to relocate their headquarters to their states of operations within the region.

OVIM—MEMBERS of Civil Society Organizations, journalists and health experts recently converged on the hilly serene Ovim community in Isiukwuato Local Government Area of Abia State to brainstorm on how to improve primary health care service in the rural areas of the State.

EMPOWERING African youths with IT knowledge, global search engine, Google,has isclosed that it has trained one million Africans in digital skills in eleven months. The technology firm also confirmed that it has reached its target early, and has set itself to train even more Africans in digital skills in the coming year.