The National Coordinator APGA Media Warriors Forum, Evang Chinedu Obigwe, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to use his good office to ward off any electoral malpractice in the forthcoming Anambra gubernatorial election, noting that Nigeria’s’ unity would be questionable should the suspected APC syndicate alleged to have printed sensitive INEC materials on Monday succeeds in rigging election.   

Mrs. Elizabeth Omotosho, the 71-year-old mother of the National Chairman of Labour Party, LP, Dr. Mike Omotosho, was Sunday night abducted by unknown gunmen in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.

Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Boss Mustapha, yesterday, told the Senate that he will not repeat the mistakes of the past that may have emanated from the office which he currently occupies.

A man, Bayo Abdulrahman, and Shadiat Obafemi, female, yesterday, appeared in a Federal High Court in Lagos, for allegedly trafficking 100 grammes and 1.1 kilogrammes of hemp at the Kirikiri Maximum Prison, Lagos.

To be sincere, everyday, my thinking remains how to make Africa a better place for her Children to live without hindrance, I’m becoming too worried not only for Nigeria’s social development but Africa. Nowhere is best in Africa, it’s all same.

Perhaps the biggest news this week so far, has been the attempt by the Presidency to debunk the allegation that President Muhammadu Buhari has been kinder to Northerners and Muslims in the recruitment of persons into his administration. The published list, itself a response to an earlier indictment by the BusinessDay newspaper, has been dismissed as incomplete, selective and misleading but all of that draws attention to a crisis at the heart of Nigerian politics, nay African politics. Matthew Hassan Kukah once described this in our context as “the-myonisation-of-power”

Abuja—The Nigeria Police Public Complaints Rapid Response Unit, PCRRU, working in synergy with the IGP’s X-Squad, arrested an Assistant Superintendent of Police attached to the Lagos State Police Command for extortion and recommended punitive measures for his misconduct, which was approved by the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris.

Daddy Freeze, Lagos-based On Air Personality, OAP, speaking on tithing quoating Matthew 23 vs 23 said that there is no record of Jesus ever paying tithe or advising any of his believers to pay tithe.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has preferred criminal charges against former Accountant-General of the Federation, Mr. Jonah Otunla before the Federal High Court in Abuja.

The riverside town of Kaiama in Kolokuma-Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State was thrown into mourning, Sunday, as a man, identified as Edwin Vincent, aged 24, allegedly killed his wife, Joy Michael with a machete.

Authorities of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, yesterday, suspended Students’ Union Government, SUG, activities, saying the decision was informed by the need to forestall total breakdown of law and order and curtail acts of brigandage among the students populace.

PORT HARCOURT-  FROM the last week of October to preceding weekend, it has been two weeks, three problems for the Pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, which prides itself as the authentic body of the people of Niger Delta region.

GOVERNOR Darius Isiaku of Taraba State, yesterday, said the implementation of grazing law in the state will take effect from January 2018.

No fewer than 500 youths in Ijede Local Council Development Area of Ikorodu, Lagos, yesterday, voluntarily renounced their membership of various cult groups in the area.

THE Federal Government, yesterday, pleaded with militant groups in the Niger Delta region, especially the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, to be patient with government as efforts were being made to address all their grievances.