IJAW Youth Coucil, IYC, under the leadership of Pereotubo Oweilaimi, yesterday, faulted the reason given by the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, for denying the chartered flight conveying Southern leaders to  the Middle Belt Conference from landing at its Makurdi Base, saying President Muhammadu Buhari was gradually turning the country to a police state.

THE wife of the Ondo State Governor, Betty Anyawu-Akeredolu, who doubles as founder, Breast Cancer Association of Nigeria, BRECAN, appealed to well-spirited Nigerians to contribute their little to assist women living with breast cancer.

The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Osun State, Hon Soji Adagunodo has alleged plans by the APC to disrupt the PDP governorship primaries holding on Saturday.

A CHINESE company, Golden Promise Ltd, has said that it has plans to establish an industrial city in Onitsha, Anambra State.

Members of the Edo State Executive Council have visited the family of late Victoria Oparanti, a 6-year-old pupil of New Generation Group of Schools, who was washed away by flood in the five-junction axis of Benin City, on her way back from school.

The Edo and Delta state governments have called on border communities in both states to sheath their swords and live harmoniously pending the determination of boundaries by the National Boundary Commission.

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has called on Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to join forces with the state government in deepening the impact of the Edo Basic Education Sector Transformation (Edo-BEST) programme by monitoring its implementation in local government areas across the state.

LEADERS of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ijumu Local Government Area of Kogi State, have agreed to the zoning of Kabba/Bunu/Ijumu Federal House of Representative seat to Ijumu Arin in Ijumu Local Government area of the state.

As the world celebrates Mandela Day, a leading justice reform and human rights organization, Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants, CURE-Nigeria has accused the Federal Government of paying lip service to the nagging issue of prison congestion in Nigeria.

Football loving Nigerians will continue to enjoy another fantastic round of pulsating football entertainment as leading Digital TV Company, StarTimes Nigeria is set to bring live and exclusive coverage of the International Champions Cup (ICC) to football lovers across Africa.

The crisis rocking the Delta State chapter of All Progressives Congres, APC, has escalated with the alleged swearing in of the factional chairman of the party, Prophet Jones Erue, by Mr Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman of the APC.

FORMER President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday lampooned the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration, saying that the government is at the moment is confused in addressing the mirage of problems and challenges confronting Nigeria as a country, just as he warned that if serious action was not taken, they would be the death knell to the country’s democracy.

THE Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos has struck out an application by the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, seeking to relist its appeal challenging a lower court judgment that validated the Ogun chapter executive led by Adebayo Dayo. It awarded N600,000 cost against the party to be paid to former chairman, Alhaji Ali-Modu Sheriff, Prof. Wale Oladapo and Dayo.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) and African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) have sealed a pact to provide $500,000 grant to support emerging small, medium businesses in Africa under the African Private Sector Assistance (FAPA) programme.

Five Greensprings students who sat for the Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education, IGCSE, examinations in May/June 2017, have been honoured by the British Council.