A member of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Abdullahi Muhammad, (APC-Kware/Wamakko), who died on Friday has been buried according to Islamic rites.

Indigenes of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, have called on the Federal Government to accord state status to the territory so they can elect a governor.

It was a shocking revelation, as the joint patrol team of Western Marine Command, WMC, of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, cracked down on unrelenting smugglers in the waterways around Ilufe Ojo-Alaba and Tungeji Ijofin creek along Nigeria/Benin Republic axis, intercepting 80 big bales of textile materials, 58 small bales and 10 sacks of bags in a night operation. This is coming only few weeks after the same Command intercepted jerrycans of smuggled petroleum products and foreign rice from the creeks.

Following controversy that trailed cut in the 2007 Federal allocation to the funding of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway project, Senator Gbenga Ashafa, representing Lagos East Senatorial District, yesterday, disclosed that both Executive and the National Assembly, NASS, are currently working on modality to ensure hitch free for accelerated completion of the project.

Acting president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has gone to his tweeter handle to praise his dear wife who marked her 50th birthday today. Note that Osinbajo did not only know how to manage the affairs of the nation but equally knows how to care for his loved wife. His lyrics says it all. In his words; My gift from God, watching over me, my support, at my side, my wings, my wife.