AWKA—STUDENTS of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, yesterday took to the streets ro protest the death of their colleagues due to what they described as neglect on the part of the management of the insitution’s medical center.

MEN of the Police Force have in the early hours of this morning besieged the residences of the President of the Senate and his deputy, Senators Bukola Saraki and Ike Ekweremadu respectively.

ENUGU—ENUGU State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, has repatriated 75 illegal immigrants arrested in parts of the state during the weekend.

Four persons, including a professor were, Sunday evening, killed by armed bandits along the volatile Abuja-Kaduna Highway.

ABUJA—THE National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, yesterday, expressed optimism that the party would reclaim power in Ekiti State in court.

The runner-up in Saturday’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary election in Osun state, Dr. Akin Ogunbiyi has called on the leadership of the party to declare him the party’s flag bearer in the state gubernatorial poll schedule for September 22, 2018.

Maiduguri—Borno State Police Commissioner, Damian Chukwu, yesterday, said a male suspected Boko Haram suicide bomber attacked a mosque, killing eight worshippers, including a Central Primary School Headmaster, in Goni Modu Lashibe Jummaa Mosque of Konduga Local Government Area, during morning prayers.

THE negative effect of money in elections is a source of concern in all genuine democracies. Though no election is possible without the funding of activities around it, unbridled deployment of money can derail its primary purpose, which is to ensure that the electorate cast their votes freely and that candidates who get the majority of votes will be declared winner.

The startling revelation of a 20-year-old self-confessed hit lady of the Eiye confraternity, on how she killed four members of a rival cult group in Ilasamaja, Mushin Local Government Area of Lagos, sent shivers down the spines of policemen and journalists at the Lagos State Police Command headquarters yesterday.

PAN Niger Delta People Forum, PANDEF, the umbrella body of traditional rulers, leaders and stakeholders of Niger Delta region, yesterday, said it was distressing that the Federal Government, through the spokesmen of President Muhammadu Buhari, chose to insult elder statesmen and women, facilitating dialogue and understanding amongst the people of the different geo-political zones, instead of seeking ways of engaging the people. 

GOVERNMENTS and leaders around the world have been called upon to institute effective laws and policies that protect and promote the rights of people affected by HIV and its co-infections.

THE price of crude oil has dropped from $87 to $73 per barrel in the international market as the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC and non-OPEC members move to comply with its recent decision on supplies.

EXCITED by the Federal Government’s plan to build a modular refinery in Anambra State, the people of Anaku community in Ayamelum Local Government Area of the state have donated a large expanse of land estimated at 20 plots of land for the project.

SHELL has commenced negotiations with the intention to sell two of its Nigerian oil licenses in the Niger Delta worth $2 billion.

The management of Safetrust Mortgage Bank Limited, a foremost Primary Mortgage Institution, PMI, in the country, has disclosed that it has given financial support to Macbosh Properties Limited to fully refund the investment made by Mr. Kunle Ogunmefun on Safetowers, a project of the PMI.