THE Anambra State branch of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has reached an understanding with the Anambra Consensus Project, ACP, a non-governmental organisation, NGO, on ways of ensuring hitch-free campaigns for the November governorship election.

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, yesterday, explained why the Federal Government could not arrest sponsors of the quit notice issued to Igbo residing in the northern part of the country, citing security reasons

THE people of Tuomo, Bomadi and Ayamasa communities in Delta and Bayelsa states, yesterday, said they had concluded moves to drag Nigeria Agip Oil Company, NAOC, to court over the company’s refusal to take responsibility for the July 11 leak on the Tuomo/Ogbonbiri gas pipeline that allegedly led to an inferno, which damaged farm crops in the affected communities worth millions of Naira.

ABUJA—MINISTER of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, yesterday, said the demands of striking Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, presented in a new letter to government dated August 28,2017, would be submitted to the Federal Executive Council, FEC, at its meeting today, in Abuja. 

Urhobo Progress Union, UPU Youth Wing has congratulated the traditional ruler of Oghara Kingdom, Delta State, on his fifth coronation anniversary, just as the Urhobo apex socio-cultural body pledged their loyalty to the monarch.

Member of the House of Representatives, Bomadi/Patani federal constituency, Delta State, Mr. Nicholas Mutu, has paid tribute to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and his predecessors for taking the state through the path of tremendous development and growth in the last 26 years.

The Federal Government is to save about N1.2 trillion, annually from a locally made over-speed alert.

ABA—A yet to be identified Policeman has shot dead a truck driver in Aba, Abia State over alleged refusal to pay a N100 bribe. 

Table –toppers Nigeria are confident of overhauling Cameroon’s Indomitable Lions when both teams clash in perhaps the biggest match of Africa’s Group B of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying race on Friday.

The World Food Programme, WFP, has suspended food distribution at Gubio internally-displaced-persons, IDPs, camp in Maiduguri due to an attack on aid workers by displaced persons.