Ado-Ekiti—A 73-year-old pensioner, Mrs Adetutu Ajayi, was on Tuesday hacked to death at her residence in Ado-Ekiti by unknown assailants, which some residents suspected to be ritualists.

For many years, there had been general agitation for separate Regions by the Middle Belt minorities in the North, the Mid-Western minorities in the West and the Calabar-Ogoja-Rivers State Movement in the East

A 22-year-old suspected member of a robbery gang, Taiye Adelowo arrested by policemen attached to Isheri Oshun Division in Lagos, has said he was pushed into the act by hunger.

A 200 Level student of a Northern state’s university has been arrested for allegedly stealing $1,600 from her fiance’s in-law’s safe and exchanging it with fake ones at Ago-Okota area of Lagos State.

Oil prices hit a two-month high, yesterday, lifted by a tightening US crude market and the threat of sanctions against OPEC member, Venezuela.

THE Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has said the House would revisit the principle of devolution of powers shot down by the National Assembly before it went on recess.

IMMEDIATE past Secretary to the Delta State Government, Mr Ovuozourie Macaulay, has said that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has the credibility and defined road map for the socio-political and economic recovery of the country.

Apart from the independence constitution, the ruling class has entrenched human rights in other constitutions and ratified some international human rights treaties and conventions

Latest information surrounding the future of Nigeria and Manchester City forward, Kelechi Iheanacho is that he has joined Leicester City.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, highlighted some of the reasons why all Nigerian leaders after his administration were unable to increase power generation from where he left it 10 years ago.

THE International Monetary Fund (IMF), yesterday, said Nigeria is expected to emerge from recession this year with an economic growth of 0.8 percent, but warned that threats to recovery remained elevated, and that the economy will not grow enough to reduce unemployment and poverty. The IMF, therefore, advised the Federal Government to pursue a policy of fiscal consolidation through higher non-oil revenues, to ensure stability in growth.

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, and Defence Headquarters, yesterday, expressed divergent views on the input of the National Assembly in the confirmation of the appointment of service chiefs by the President.

CALABAR—A 52-year-old man, Abraham Udoh, who sold his two-year-old son for N150,000, was among suspects paraded, yesterday, by the Cross River Police Command.

Thrice Dina Meshref has made it to the final of the ITTF Challenge Nigeria Open ‘Lagos 2017’ and she has been unfortunate to have miss out from the title and again the African champion is coming to Lagos to right all the wrongs that had befallen her in previous editions of the championships which serves off on August 9 at the Molade Okoya-Thomas Hall of Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos, Nigeria.

AHEAD of today’s meeting of Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo with leaders of Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, led by Chief Edwin Clark, pan-Niger Delta civil groups, yesterday, told PANDEF, that the meeting had been overtaken by events, advising the group to, instead, declare a Republic of Niger Delta and call for a referendum.