Imo State chapter of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, yesterday, said it would continue to reject any plan to establish ranching in the state.

The Federal Government has given reasons why it believes the former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col Sambo Dasuki (retd), should not be granted bail.

The pastor of the Household of God International Ministries, Reverend Chris Okotie, has asked the 68 political parties, especially the two major ones, to roll over and adopt him as their consensus candidate in next year’s presidential election. 

FRONTLINE governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, has urged all members of the party to troop out en-masse for today’s primary. Expressing confidence that the party has made adequate provisions for the smooth conduct of the primary, he said that Osun must serve as the best model for the direct primary.

Days after the end of the global fiesta, distressing videos and photos of stranded Nigerian youths sleeping on the streets of Russia trended like wildfire. In a scenario reminiscent of the migrant slave trade scandal recently exposed by the CNN, videos of Nigerian young men calling for help to return to their country made the rounds.

PORT HAR-COURT— BARELY one month after being opened to the public, Rivjobs, the online portal initiated by Governor Nyesom Wike’s administration to match employers with employable job seekers in the state, has started to yield results.

ABUJA—THE Senate yesterday asked the Nigeria National Petroleum Company, NNPC, as well as oil and gas companies involved in the execution of the Obite-Ubeta-Rumuji (OUR) and North Option Pipeline (NOPL) Gas Pipelines Projects to appear before it to explain the astronomical cost of completing the two major gas pipeline projects by Ethese companies. 

MAIDUGURI—One of the arrested Boko Haram leaders and kidnappers of the Chibok schoolgirls, Mallam Mayinta Modu, alias Abor, aged 23, has revealed that each of them received N60,000 as ransom before they freed one batch of the abducted girls.

A GROUP within the All Progressives Congress , APC, in Osun State, the Integrity Group, has  thrown its weight behind the position of the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party on the conduct of the governorship primary election in the state through direct primary.

AFENIFERE chieftain, Chief Ayo Adebanjo has renewed the group’s call for restructuring of the Nigerian federation for proper functioning of the Nigerian federalism.