THE Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, in Ekiti State, has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to urgently charge the arrested Commissioner for Finance, Toyin Ojo, and Accountant General of the State, Mrs. Yemisi Owolabi, to court if indeed it has anything against them.

MINORITIES, or those who feel they have become minorities, are erupting across the world; English-speaking Camerounians in Africa, the Rohingya in Asia, the Kurds in the Arab world and the Catalans in Europe.

HUMAN rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, yesterday, called on the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, to expose corrupt judges in the country if it is committed to the eradication of judicial corruption.

Sen. Abubakar Sodangi on Thursday threw his weight behind the calls to zone the Nasarawa State governorship seat to the north senatorial district in 2019.

WITH the nation getting ready to embrace campaigns and elections in the next few months, some people seem determined to politicise efforts being made to resettle Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in the Boko Haram-ravaged North East, especially Borno State.

Calabar – The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said on Thursday in Calabar that Nigeria was gradually moving toward technological independence .

YOLA—AN Inspector of Police attached to the Girei Divisional Police in Adamawa State (names withheld) was, yesterday, lynched in Digino village, along the Girei Wuro Boki Road, after shooting dead a commuter and injuring two others over N50.

Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, returned the file of criminal case against former Gov. Babangida Aliyu of Niger to Acting Chief Judge for re-assignment.

THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has been accused of failing to remit $629 million, being proceeds from its operations and the interest accruing to it in five different banks.

ABEOKUTA—No fewer than 70 suspected kidnappers, robbers, murderers and cultists have been arrested by men of Ogun State Police within one month.

A Warri magistrate’s court, Delta State, has remanded five suspects arraigned on a 10- count charge of kidnap, robbery and murder.

No fewer than 20 people have been killed as Tropical Storm Nate washed away parts of Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras.

ABA — A legal practitioner, Charles Onuchukwu, has urged the court to strike out charges against suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, arraigned over alleged murder, arson,use of offensive weapons and theft.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, and Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, yesterday called for immediate investigation into the alleged breach of due process in the $25 billion contract award involving the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru.

First of all, I was the chairman of Odumegwu Ojukwu’s political party, that is, I was the chairman of APGA that fielded the late Odumegwu Ojukwu as a presidential candidate; so I can tell you authoritatively that I was privy to that meeting in Daura.