The quick intervention of the police prevented Igboye in Epe Local Government Area of Lagos State from descending into chaos as some indigenes loyal to the traditional ruler planned offering sacrifices to their ancestors.

THE House of Representatives Committee on Public Procurement, yesterday, cautioned Finance Minister, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, that they would not be ambushed by the documents she submitted without reading.

Chief of Defence Staff, General Gabriel Olonisakin, has blamed inability of the military to provide statutory entitlement to soldiers who either die or are wounded in action on the nation’s current constitution, saying the country’s existing law never made provision for same.

AFENIFERE, the Yoruba socio-political group, yesterday expressed indignation over the incessant kidnap of school children along the Ogun and Lagos states coastlines.

Exactly a day like today, 30 May 1967, Lieutenant-Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the then Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria declared the sovereign state of Biafra in a speech that got Ndigbo fighting for self independence from Nigeria.

The bitterness that arose from the primary elections for chairmanship and councillor candidates in the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, continued yesterday as aggrieved party members stormed the state party secretariat and sacked staff and officials present.

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A Port Harcourt-based comedian, Mr. Tekena Iyala, yesterday, marched half-naked to the Rivers State Police Command headquarters, protesting robbery attacks, killings and kidnappings around Ada-George area of the Garden City, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area.

GOVERNOR Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa State has pleaded with the striking workers in the state to resume work in the interest of peace, blaming opposition parties for the ongoing industrial action.

The wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, yesterday departed to United Kingdom to join her husband President Muhammadu Buhari, who is in London for medical follow-up.

The House of Representatives, yesterday, moved the process of making the review of the National Minimum Wage a periodic exercise of every five years.

Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, said yesterday that the Federal Government would do everything within its powers to provide the 82 Chibok girls released recently by Boko Haram quality education

The Nigerian investing public lost N11.9 billion to the Mavrodi Mundial Moneybox, MMM, Ponzi scheme, according to the Annual Report of the Nigeria Electronic Fraud Forum, NeFF, which was unveiled, in Abuja, yesterday.

RECENT developments in the Nigerian economy where the contraction in the GDP slowed considerably in Q1, 2017 is an indication that the country will likely exit the current recession between Q2 and Q3, 2017, analysts at FSDH Merchant Bank, have said.