President Donald Trump, battling allegations that Russia helped him win the White House, claimed Wednesday that Vladimir Putin actually would have preferred a Hillary Clinton victory.

Rep. Oghene Egoh, member representing Amuwo Odofin in the House of Representatives has vowed that the election in the area would be a fight to finish between his Peoples Democratic Party, and the All Progressives Congress, APC.

ASABA—DELTA State branch of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers, NIESV, has re-elected Chief Efe Appih and Pastor R. A. Ndidi as Chairman and Vice Chairman, respectively

Lagos—The hearing in the appeal by the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Dame Patience, before the Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos, in which she is seeking to stop the forfeiture of her $5.7million and N2,421,953,522.78 to the Federal Government was yesterday, stalled, as one of the Justices has withdrawn from the case.

Owerri—Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has called on the Executive Director of Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON, Mr. Eberechukwu Uneze, to see the chieftaincy title conferred on him as a call to community service.

THE Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, yesterday, warned politicians not to take the simplicity and respect of the group for granted as it will resist any person or group of persons, who would want to drag its name or image to the mud. This came as the group lambasted Senior Special Adviser to the Governor of Anambra State on Political Matters, Comrade Arinze Awogu, on his press statement that MASSOB and other pro-Biafra groups deliberated on the November 18 governorship election in Anambra State as published in newspapers.

By Dennis Agbo ENUGU — THE Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, has appealed an order by Attorney-General of Enugu State, Mr. Milletus Eze, to discontinue criminal prosecution of an Enugu-based lawyer, Mr. Peter Eze. The lawyer, Eze, was on February 7, 2017 arraigned in an Enugu magistrate’s court by the police for alleged criminal […]

AS agitations of restructuring and referendum continues across the country, women under the aegis of Virtuous Women and Youth Empowerment Initiative, VWYEI, has called for action against hate speeches across the country .

Maiduguri—Borno State Police Command, yesterday, confirmed that 19 people were killed and 23 injured in the latest Boko Haram attacks in Maiduguri, late Tuesday night.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Niger State, has created eight additional Continuous Voter Registration, CVR, centres.