The Onitsha Traders Consultative Forum, OTCF, has cautioned the All Progressives Congress, APC that it risks losing the state if it picks any other aspirant outside the mould of Dr. Tony Nwoye, one of the major aspirants in the contest and a member representing Anambra East and West Federal Constituency in the Federal House of Representatives.

Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, said, yesterday, the countries in the Lake Chad Basin have worked very well together in dealing with terrorist insurgency in the region and the consequent humanitarian crisis.

UYO—AN expert in snake management and Associate Professor, Department of Forestry and Natural Environment Management, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Edem Archebong Eniang, has raised the alarm, that Ghana, Togo and Republic of Benin, had appropriated Nigeria’s annual export quota of 2000 baby-pythons to Europe, causing the country a huge loss in foreign revenue.

President Muhammadu Buhari will work with Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, and Nigerians of all ethnic groups to ensure that the policies of his administration benefit every Nigerian, Presidency assured, yesterday.

THE Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday, accused the federal and Anambra State governments of recruiting those it described as uneducated individuals and students in the universities to infiltrate its ranks in order to label the organisation a violent group.

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.

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

Two senators from Kaduna State, Shehu Sani and Suleiman Hunkuyi, have taken their case to the national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress APC, accusing Governor Nasir el-Rufai of manipulating last Saturday’s local government congresses held in the state.

The UN has allocated over $10.5 million to help thousands of vulnerable in need of life-saving humanitarian assistance in the devastated Nigeria’s northeast.

PORT HARCOURT— A woman, who lost four of her children in a kerosene explosion at her residence in Rumukwucha community, was seen yesterday around GRA Junction half-naked and appealing to passers-by to help rescue her children from the inferno.

A person in the ICU needs constant medical attention and support to keep the body functioning

ABDUCTORS of the six senior secondary school students of Lagos Model College, lgbonla, Epe, yesterday threatened to strike again if the Federal Government fails to include them in its Amnesty Programme.

Renowned poet, Odia Ofeimun, has called on the National Assembly to futher review the constitution to devolve more powers to states.

THE Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Fatai Owoseni, yesterday handed over secretariat keys of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos State to a former Deputy National Chairman of the party, Chief Bode George.

THE Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC oil output rose in July by 90,000 barrels per day (bpd) to a 2017 high, led by a further recovery in supply from Libya, one of the countries exempt from a production-cutting deal, a Reuters survey showed.