A 36 year old grandmother, Bosede Oyetunde who threw away her daughter’s a-day-old boy has been sentenced to one month imprisonment by an Akure Chief Magistrate court sitting in Akure, the Ondo state capital. Oyetunde reportedly committed the offence at about 8:00pm at Omotoso Ore road Ondo State in the Akure Magisterial District on July 4, 2017

ONITSHA—No fewer than 14 persons have been arrested by the police in Onitsha, Anambra State in connection with last Thursday’s lynching of a policeman in the commercial city.

The Islamist Boko Haram terrorists have released a video footage of the staff members of the University of Maiduguri, UNIMAID, and an NNPC staff under abduction. In the video, the men cry for help from the Federal Government, urging FG to listen to a purported demand from the terrorists whom they said would free them if such happens.

THE Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, has opposed the attempt by the Senate to move the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, NFIU, from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, to the National Assembly, saying it would kill the fight against financial crimes.

Fate has played an unkind one in the Orosoye family, following the gruesome killing of their bread winner, Adegoke (42) by a bullet allegedly from some policemen, in the nation’s Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

Enugu — 10 pro-Biafra groups, including the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, yesterday lambasted the National Assembly, NASS, for rejecting the restructuring of the country, saying that there would be no future elections in the old Eastern Region if genuine efforts were not made to start the process before October 1, this year.

IN a move likely to reassure Southerners residing in Northern Nigeria of their safety, governors of 19 northern states and traditional rulers of northern extraction, yesterday, vowed to protect the lives and property of Southerners in the North.

ANAMBRA State governor, Chief Willie Obiano has said that without the determination of his team, the state would not have become Nigeria’s fourth largest economy, noting that he inherited a state with an average ambition.

LIKE most high-profile kidnap incidents that had recently taken place in Nigeria, yesterday’s release of six Senior Secondary School Students of Lagos Model College, Igbonla, Epe, who were abducted on May 25, 2017, did not just happen as simple as it sounds.

BENIN CITY-THE authorities of the Edo State University Iyamho, Edo State, have described as misleading and untrue reports that the Acting Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Emmanuel Aluyor, had said the university was an institution for the rich and not for the poor.

PORT HARCOURT —Governor Nyesom Wike has dared the All Progressives Congress, APC , to compare him with any of their most outstanding governors in the country to see if he had done the type of gigantic project he (Wike) had undertaken since he came on board two years ago.

Nine socio-political organisations in both the South – South and South East zones yesterday lambasted the National Assembly, NASS, over its opposition to restructuring of the country, saying that there would be no future elections in the old Eastern Region if genuine efforts were not made to start the process before October 1, this year.

An Ogun State High Court sitting in Ota,Ado-Odo local government area of the state has sacked the Olosun of Ososun in Ifo, Oba Alani Solanke, describing his installation as null and void .

The organised labour yesterday said that the issue of devolution of power should not be left in the hands of the National Assembly alone, rather it requires a platform that will bring Nigerians together so that every discussion will be all inclusive.