Can you help me understand why my boyfriend won’t marry me? We’ve been together for nine years and we’re very much in love. He tells me repeatedly that I’m all he’s ever wanted.

ABUJA— A Catholic priest, Dr Gabriel  Ngbea, has asked the Federal Government to proscribe Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, andJammatul Nasri Islam JNI, accusing them of being more political than religious.

BENIN—Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has lamented the killing of three Police officers and abduction of the Chief Executive of Ogba Zoological Garden and Nature Park, Mr. Andy Enahire, by suspected kidnappers, assuring the people of the state of government’s readiness to ensure security of lives and property for citizens.

THE industrial town of Nnewi has suddenly become a political pride as the major political parties contesting the November 18 governorship went to the town to shop for running mates.

THE Campaign for Democracy, CD, has raised the alarm over what it described as deteriorating security in some locations of the state that may affect the peaceful conduct of the November governorship election and urged Governor Willie Obiano to rejig the Operation Kpochapu which sanitized Upper Iweke when he newly assumed office as the state Governor.

The Director General  of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mustapha Maihaja has commended the untiring efforts of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State in disaster management in the state, saying that the agency is happy with  what his administration is doing in that regard.

enugu—Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi’s administration has approved the immediate payment of monthly pensions for former elected Governors and Deputies, who have no issue that is subjudice, in line with the extant laws of the state.

Flykite Promotions, organisers of GOtv Boxing Night, have assured fans coming to the 12th edition of the event of adequate security in and around the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium, Lagos, venue of the event.

AS part of the efforts of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, to address the marginalisation of the Igbo in Nigeria, President-General of the group, Chief John Nnia Nwodo,  will be at the Royal Institute Of International Affairs (CHATHAM HOUSE), today.

UMUAHIA—The family of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has asked  the Nigeria Army to produce him, saying that his whereabouts remain unknown weeks after the raid on their Afaraukwu Umuahia family house.

LAGOS-based lawyer, Mr. Festus Keyamo (SAN), said, yesterday, that none of the wives of Peter and Paul Okoye, widely known as Psquare, has anything to do with their feud, noting that “the wives have kept their respectable and dignified distances from all the issues involved.”

THE House Committee on Works and Transport, Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, yesterday condemned the wanton destruction of public property in most communities across the state.

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola fears French full-back Benjamin Mendy faces months on the sidelines with injury and compared his situation to Ilkay Gundogan’s nine-month lay-off.

Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice on his 400th Real Madrid appearance as the Champions League holders defeated Borussia Dortmund 3-1, while Harry Kane grabbed a hat-trick in Tottenham Hotspur’s 3-0 win at APOEL Nicosia on Tuesday.

A female suicide bomber killed five people on Tuesday when she blew herself up in a mosque in northeast Nigeria, in the latest attack blamed on Boko Haram jihadists, local militiamen told AFP.