The last seems not have been heard regarding the death of 19-year-old Joy Obama, an undergraduate of University of Technology, Cross River State, who reportedly died of acute overdose of cocaine, allegedly administered on her by one Alhaji.

Kwara State chapter of Magazine and Newspapers Distributors Association of Nigeria, MANDAN, has elected new executives to run its affairs for the next two years, in an election, which took place at the MANDAN’s headquarters, Emirs Road, Ilorin.

Value Added Tax (VAT) generated the sum of N204.77 billion into the coffers of government in the first quarter of 2017, according to a report released by National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), yesterday.

THE kidnap kingpin, Chukwudubem Onwuamadike, a.k.a Evans, who was arrested last Saturday by operatives of Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT, for coordinating several high-profile kidnappings, armed robbery and murder within Lagos, Edo, Abia, Enugu and Anambra States, yesterday, revealed that his father’s decision to disown him was the reason he took to crime.

DELTA State Government, yesterday, said that members of the New Delta Avengers threatening to resume attacks on oil installations by the end of this month may not be from the state, insisting that the Governor Ifeanyi Okowa administration was not despotic in its actions.

Akwa Ibom State governor, Mr Udom Emmanuel, has called on the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC and other development agencies to partner the state government in the execution of people-oriented projects as well as upgrade health facilities in the state

UNITED Labour Congress of Nigeria, ULC, has pleaded with the International Labour Organisation, ILO, to prevail on International Oil Companies, IOCs and others to end the indiscriminate sack of Nigerian workers and replacing them with expatriates.

A 45-year-old suspected ritualist, who was arrested by the Police in Lagos with a human skull, has disclosed that he sold fresh human skull for N1 million.

THE Defence Headquarters, yesterday, set up a high profile committee to investigate the remote and immediate causes of the recent clash between personnel of the Nigerian Navy and the Police in Calabar, Cross River State.

A serving Judge of the Federal High Court, Bayelsa Division Justice Hyeladzira Nganjiwa, who was reinstated by the National Judicial Council, NJC, last week, has been slammed with a 14-count charge by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

The death of a 38-year-old farmer, (identity withheld) reportedly beheaded over a land dispute between Amai and Umuebu communities, Ukwuani Local Government Area, has created tension in the communities.

A Police Sergeant, Rafiu Olaoye, serving with the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Ogun State Command was feared dead yesterday, while four of his colleagues were injured in an auto crash.

The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Niger State chapter, has cried out to the state government over what it described as maginalisation of Christians in the running of the state and called for immediate reversal for the sake of equity and fair play.

NINETEEN years after the death of the acclaimed winner of June 12,1993 election, Chief MKO Abiola, the House of Representatives, yesterday, moved that the Federal Government should confer a post-humous national honour on him.

The Federal Government, yesterday, said it had intensified effort to arrest and extradite the immediate past Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke, SAN, back to Nigeria to face two sets of criminal charges over his alleged involvement in $1.3 billion oil bloc fraud.