There was tension, yesterday, in Odokekere area of Ikorodu, Ogun State, following the discovery of the dismembered body of a seven-year-old boy, Kazeem Rafiu, at a Church building.

“My wife will beat me to death one day if I continue with the marriage,’’ A 67-year-old man, Mr. Olawale Jayeola, told an Igando customary court in Lagos, yesterday.

THE Appeal Court sitting in Benin City, Edo State, will today, deliver judgment on the appeal by the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, against the ruling of the Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, which upheld the election of Governor Godwin Obaseki of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has remanded former Resident Electoral Commissioner, Rivers State, Dame Gecilia Khan, in the custody of the South-South office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in Port Harcourt, pending hearing of her bail application on Friday.

Amid wailing and tears, fear stricken parents of kidnapped students of the Lagos State Model College, Igbonla, Epe, yesterday, besieged the office of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to express their concern over the prolonged delay in the rescue of their children from the kidnappers’ den, 14 days after they were abducted. They demanded for their immediate rescue.

lagos—IT was lamentations once again, yesterday, as trucks have taken over the entire stretch of the dual carriageway beginning from Mile 2 to Tin Can Port.

Leicester City ace Wilfred Ndidi has credited Gernot Rohr with the Eagles new-found form, describing the Franco-German as a “wonderful” coach who has tried to unite the team.

Super eagles supporters especially the teeming indigenes of Akwa Ibom State have been availed the opportunity of watching the high class Nations Cup qualifier between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and Bafana Bafana of South Africa for only one thousand naira (N1,000).

GOVERNOR Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, yesterday, suspended the Head of Administration of Egor Local Government Area of the state, Mrs Rachael Iriefo, and other staff over what he described as their lack of seriousness in the management of the affairs of the council and lateness to work.

Edo State Government does not owe its secondary school teachers, pensioners, and its secretariat workers any salary, BudgIT, a civic technology organisation, said yesterday.

AGAIN, the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, has distanced itself from recent rumour of coup in the country.

The Federal Government has postponed the ‘Smart Cities Nigeria Summit’ scheduled to hold in July.

FIVE siblings were, Wednesday, abducted by kidnappers at Osubi, Okpe Local Government Area of Delta State.

DELTA State governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, yesterday raised alarm over the spate of cultism in the country, lamenting that it was destroying the society.

A few hours after Boko Haram attacked Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday defied the threat of the insurgents to flag-off the Federal Government’s Emergency Food Intervention programme in the North East.