UYO—ROBBERS killed a freelance photo-journalist, Samuel Ekerendu, in the early hours of Sunday. They invaded his apartment at Enen Abasi Street, Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital.

PRESIDENT, Niger Delta Youth Association, NDYA, worldwide, Comr. Victor James, has said that despite the fact that Niger Delta is the producer of crude oil for over five decades, its people have remained impoverished.

A 14-year-old secondary school student is facing trial at an Ikeja chief magistrate’s court over the defilement of his neighbour’s seven-year-old daughter.

YENAGOA—A 26-year-old lady, identified as Miss Deborah Eteh, was bathed with substance suspected to be acid on Tombia Road by Edepie, Bayelsa State, by her ex-boyfriend, who came in from Rivers State.

FOR asking Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, not to sign the 2017 budget until the National Assembly removed the N448 billion added to it, the Senate has urged the Acting President to be very careful of people like Femi Falana, SAN.

MEMBERS of the House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions yesterday threatened to get Minister of Sports, Mr Solomon Dalung arrested over alleged N30million bribery scam and his deliberate refusal to appear before the committee after seven invitations were communicated to him.

THE Iwere People’s Congress, IPC, Warri, Delta State, has lashed out at the Ijaw People’s Development Initiative, IPDI, and the Niger Delta Scholars, NDS, which recently faulted the claim to the ownership of Warri by the Itsekiri ethnic nationality, saying that the groups were misguided and misdirected in their eruption.

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A 56-year-old man, Sunday Adimagwu, and his son, Kenneth, 21, were yesterday brought before an Ikeja Chief Magistrate’s court and charged with defiling a 12-year-old girl.

Former Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Obadiah Mailafia, has said the naira, which was accepted in London and Saudi Arabia years ago, was not even now accepted in Benin Republic anymore.

There are very strong indications that Super Eagles Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr has axed Coach Imama Amapakabo as one of the technical crew of the Nigerian senior national team.

WARRI—THE Iwere People’s Congress, IPC, Warri, Delta State, has lashed out at the Ijaw People’s Development Initiative, IPDI, and the Niger Delta Scholars, NDS, which recently faulted the claim to the ownership of Warri by the Itsekiri ethnic nationality, saying the groups were misguided and misdirected in their eruption.

The member representing Warri Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Mr. Daniel Reyenieju, has advised those thinking that the reported recent increment of the budgetary allocation to the Amnesty Programme in the Niger Delta was all that was needed to arrest the multi-dimensional crises afflicting the region, to have a rethink.

YENAGOA—A first-class traditional ruler, the Ibenanaowei of Ekpetiama Kingdom, Bayelsa State, His Royal Majesty, King Dakolo Bubraye, Agada IV, has said that besides the despoliation of oil-bearing communities by oil companies, oil workers were arbitrarily impregnating Niger Delta women and abandoning them, warning that if unrestrained, the next chapter of violence in the region, masterminded by products of the unbridled sexual unions, will be unspeakable.

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