IT was double tragedy in lgbekebo, Ese Odo council area of Ondo State as a Higher National Diploma, HND, student, identified as Akin, drowned while attending a funeral ceremony of his friend’s father.

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.