ECONOMIC and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, South East Zonal Head of Operation, Mr Johnson Babalola, has disclosed that former Governor of Enugu State, Sullivan Chime’s case is still under investigation.

THE Imo State House of Assembly, yesterday, moved against pools betting operators in the state, on alleged fraud and exploitation of the people of the state.

AUTHORITIES of the Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta, codenamed Operation Delta Safe, yesterday, confirmed that its operatives, weekend, raided identified camps of pirates and kidnappers in the creeks of Bayelsa State and rescued two victims.

THREE months after a legal victory, the Assemblies of God Nigeria has scheduled a special thanksgiving service for Thursday, May 18, to commemorate last February 24 Supreme Court ruling after a protracted legal battle between the church and her former leader, Prof. Paul Emeka.

The Nigeria Union of Pensioners, NUP, in Anambra State, yesterday, reiterated its demand for over N490 million arrears for 11 months owed some primary school retirees of 2002 and 2003.

A former Acting Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Bayelsa State, Mr. Pamo Hobobo, was in the early hours of yesterday, reportedly stabbed to death by suspected assassins.

Barely three weeks after some gunmen suspected to be armed robbers killed an Inspector of Police and made away with his AK-47 rifle at Ugwunwasike area of Ogidi, in Idemili North Local Government area of Anambra state, another gunmen, yesterday, shot dead another policeman and carted away his AK-47 rifle at Nkpor junction.

THE Federal Government has set up a 10-man medical team to tackle the outbreak of Ebola disease in Nigeria.

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has enjoined school children and youths in the state to remain focused on their studies and avoid getting involved in any act that could lead them into crime.

Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court sitting in Uyo, has vacated the ex-parte order she granted on March 30, 2017 freezing the accounts of Mr. Nsima Ekere, the Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.

Nigeria may become the regional operational hub of the 43-year old Islamic Development Bank, IsDB, in Africa, as the development finance institution is considering a proposal to expand its existing country gateway office in Abuja to serve as a key regional office.

THE member representing Abia State Central in the state House of Assembly, Chinedum Orji, has accused the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC, of frustrating his effort to install new transformers for his constituents.

AN Ebonyi Youth Leader and member of Ohanaeze Youth Council, Mazi Alex Okemiri, has called on political leaders in Ebonyi State to start shopping for the replacement of Governor Dave Umahi in the 2019 election, describing the governor’s two years so far as a total failure and disservice to the people of Ebonyi.

POLICE, yesterday, arraigned two men, Haruna Makinde, 32, an auto mechanic, and a businessman, Ifeanyi Ezeanya, 32, before an Igbosere magistrate’s court, Lagos, for allegedly stealing a truck valued at N8 million.

The body of Callistus Ugoh, a taxi driver that was declared missing last month, has been found in a morgue in Yaba, Lagos.