BENIN—NINE persons were killed, yesterday, in a road accident involving a tipper lorry and a commercial bus along Upper Sakponba Road in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State.

HOMICIDE detectives attached to Anambra State Police Criminal Investigations Department, CID, are working round the clock to unmask culprits responsible for killing one Mr. Emmanuel Nwankwo, a father of six and a vigilante operative attached to Okpoko community in Ogbaru Local Government Area of the state.

The president of National Association of Itsekiri Graduates  (NAIG), Mr Collins Oritsetimyin Edema has said that plans has been concluded to organise the maiden  edition of Itsekiri Economic Summit with the theme: ‘’Development of Iwere land and Sustainable Growth.”

ABAKALIKI—GOVERNOR David Umahi of Ebonyi State yesterday commended the federal government for approving $150million loan for the construction of the Ring Road that cuts across eight local government areas of the state.

ENUGU—THE Biafra Zionists’ Federation, BZF, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s claim that Ojukwu disowned Biafra in 2003 as a compendium of lies.

Awka—A GROUP Awka—A GROUP  in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State, the Fresh Congress Group, FCG, has vowed to resist imposition of any governorship candidate on the people by anybody or group

The sad aspect of it all is that our policemen work under a very dangerous, un-conducive and thoroughly hostile environment as opposed to their foreign counterparts who have everything modern at their disposal and under a beautiful, encouraging atmosphere within which they operate – and with fantastic salary to show for it!

By CHARLES KUMOLU As a younger person, Moses Siasia knew quite early in life that the choice of becoming successful was solely his responsibility. Losing his father early challenged him the more to make something beyond the average out of life. Faced with the challenges inherent in surviving with just his mother as a benefactor […]

I am 26 years old and every time I meet a new man, I truly believe he’s ‘the one’ for me. I get so carried away with the moment, but things always end in tears for me. I get horribly hurt, swear I’ll be more careful next time, and then it all happens all over again. When next I feel I want something so much, how can I make sure I take things more slowly?

I believe I am being sexually abused. I am in my late teens and live at home.

WARRI—The Itsekiri Nation Youth Council, INYC worldwide is set to commemorate the 2017 International World Youth Day with a 3-day program commencing from Friday  August 25 with a lecture on the legal fact about Itsekiri home land and presentation of Itsekiri development plan

I got married a couple of years ago and we have been trying for a baby without positive result. Early last year, I felt this terrible pains in my lower abdomen and I was rushed to the hospital and the doctor said I had an ectopic pregnancy and that he had to operate right away to remove one of the fallopian tubes that was damaged.
Could this be responsible for my infertility? And what are my chances of getting pregnant with only one tube 

My eldest child is in his late teens and goes to school from home. We live in a block of flats and our flat has a one room boy’s quarter attached to it where the housemaid lives.

UYO—Governors of the eleven states making up the South-South/South-East geo-political zone have felicitated with the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari,GCFR, on his return to the country after his medical vacation in the United Kingdom.

A 30-year-old man, Shehu Gidado, yesterday, told an Iyaganku chief magistrate’s court, Ibadan, that he does not know how a human skull and ribs came into his possession.