NIGERIA United Front, NUF, a non-governmental organisation, has urged the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, to direct the Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC, to commence the installation of pre-paid meters in its areas of operations without further delay so as to discontinue the imposition of estimated bills on electricity consumers.

UNITED Progressives Party, UPP aspirant, Chief Osita Chidoka, has said that the time has come for Anambra State to have a government that is not afraid but bold and fearless enough to speak out for the people and defend them against unwarranted aggressions.

APC governorship aspirant, Dr. Tony Nwoye, has said that the church in Anambra has a fundamental duty to be the moral compass of the society. Dr. Nwoye, a member of the House of Representatives, was quoted in a statement issued by his campaign office to have made the declaration when he attended the 50th Birthday celebration of Rt. Rev. Dr. Owen C. Nwokolo, the Bishop on the Niger at the All Saints Cathedral, Onitsha.

Okewunmi Omotoyosi Daniel, who was, weekend, arrested alongside suspected members of the notorious Badoo boys during a joint raid by the Police, O’odua Peoples Congress, OPC, and members of a vigilante group in Ikorodu area of Lagos, has said that he is not a member of the dreaded cult.

For the first time in recent history, Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri surmounted his continental rival – Egypt’s Omar Assar in the final of the 2017 ITTF Africa Cup to qualify for the ITTF World Cup in France.

Greek Super League champions Olympiakos are on the verge of announcing the signing of former Super Eagles striker, Emmanuel Emenike.

Operatives of Enugu State Police Command have arrested a 27-year-old man at Akegbe Ugwu in Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State for allegedly raping a six-year-old child.

Burutu Local Government Council Legislative Arm, Delta State, has impeached and suspended indefinitely, its leader, Mr Frank Adokeme, over allegation of gross misconduct.

FIVE unarmed policemen attached to the Ughelli ‘A’ Division Police Station were, Sunday, disposed of their phones and undisclosed amount of money at gunpoint by a gang of suspected cultists at Ughelli, Delta State.

Youths of Irete autonomous community, Owerri, Imo State, yesterday, destroyed the family homes of two suspected cultists and handed over four others to the Police for investigation and prosecution.

Their contract expired last July; they have no subsisting agreement to work with us. But because we don’t want PSP operators out of jobs, we are ready to continue to work with them

EXACTLY 90 days to his 88th birthday, Elder statesman and frontline nationalist, Alhaji Yusuf Maitama Sule, passed on, yesterday morning, throwing his Kano home state into mourning.

A STUDY by the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF,- sponsored Social Mobilization and Technical Committee, SOMTEC, of Anambra State Ministry of Information and Communications Strategy has shown that only about 50 per cent of mothers in the state complied fully with exclusive breastfeeding of their babies.

ASABA— MEMBER representing Ika North East in the Delta State House of Assembly, Hon Emeka Anthony Elekeokwuri, said he had textured 27 earth roads across communities in the area, enabled more than 235 physically challenged villagers, youths and women, as part of his constituency projects in the last two years.

The Borno State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, yesterday, said it registered 3,000 births among internally-displaced persons, IDPs, in the past six months.