Parents of the six abducted Senior Secondary School students of Lagos state Model College, Igbonla, Epe, were weekend, elated when rumours that their children would be released by midnight Saturday, filtered in.

German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle said Sunday it has sent an official note of protest to Nigerian authorities, accusing police of beating up and detaining one of its correspondents.

The Osun State government, co-owner of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, has called on members of the public to prevail on the management and staff of the institution to be open and sincere towards ending the lingering crisis rocking the university.

The Yoruba cosmology (belief in the living, the dead, and the unborn) was the focus of The Childville Schools’ annual drama performance held Friday 16 June at the Agip Recital Hall, MUSON Centre, Lagos, when it re-enacted Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman, directed by Mr. Gboyega Biletan Jerome.

AS Nigerian muslims, yesterday, joined their counterparts in the rest of the world to celebrate Eid-el-Fitiri, Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, said President Muhammadu Buhari would complete the service of the mandate given to him by Nigerians in good health.

DELTA State governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, weekend, charged Nigerian politicians to go into farming, insisting that investing in Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, MSMEs, was the quickest way to grow the nation’s economy.

GUNMEN, suspected to be kidnappers, weekend, abducted a sexagenarian and father of an Ughelli-based wine dealer at Ughelli, Delta State.

A sting operation by DSS operatives in Kano yesterday, led to the arrest of a top Boko Haram commander, and 20 other suspects.

Rivers State governor, Mr Nyesom Wike, has explained that the dissolution of the State Executive Council was done in consultation with the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state.

No fewer than 2,000 indigenes of Ikot Abasi Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, and its environs have benefited from Total E and P’s Mass Free Medical Outreach for host communities in the state.