What would have resulted to bloody clash at the Oba International Market Oba site of the Coordinated Wholesale Center, CWC, for drug distribution, Onitsha was Thursday averted by the Anambra State Commissioner for Industry Trade and Wealth Creation Dr. Christian Madubuko and the Chairman, House of Assembly Committee on Trade and Commerce, Hon. Pete Ibida.

No fewer than 67 communities in Gamawa local government area of Bauchi state lack toilet facilities.

Cross River State House of Assembly has summoned Secretary to the State Government, Barr Tina Agbor, and others to clear the air on their alleged involvement in the doctoring of the 2018 budget with a view of explaining their part in the illegality.

Deputy Governor of Delta State, Deacon Kingsley Otuaro, Tuesday, led Delta Ijaw Political Assembly, DIPA, to condole Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, over death of his mother, Mama Goldcoast Dickson, at Toru-Orua, Sagbama LGA, Bayelsa State.

Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki has officially declared to run for the president come 2019 election. 

The Kwara state chapter of #SNIGERIA FIRST, a Saraki support group, says they are staunchly in support of Saraki in the face of what they claimed is “the vehement hostility against him and the political imbroglio unfolding in the country.”

President Muhammadu Buhari has insisted that the ruling All progressives Congress APC remained the majority in the Senate, saying the wave of defections recently witnessed in the National Assembly merely made a dent on the party as it did not affect its super-structure.

The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Center, CISLAC, on Thursday, said it was perturbed about increased cases of unlawful arrest of journalists and other Nigerians, even as it commended effort to restructure the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS.

AS the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) prepares for primary elections for candidates, Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa and his Gombe State counterpart, Dr Ibrahim Dankwambo have urged all aspirants to use the primaries as a means of strengthening the unity of the party.

A nearly 1000-year-old ink painting by one of China’s greatest literati masters Su Shi is expected to fetch US$51 million at auction, Christie’s said Thursday as the work went on view in Hong Kong.

An Ethiopian military helicopter crashed on Thursday, killing 18 people, the state-affiliated Fana Broadcast Corporate reported.

Nigeria’s duo of Tajudeen Agunbiade and Nasiru Sule have qualified for quarterfinals at the ongoing World Para Table Tennis Championships, holding in Beijing, China.

Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda told international judges Thursday he was a “revolutionary and not a criminal” as arguments drew to a close in his three-year war crimes trial.

Leading smartphone giant, TECNO mobile in conjunction with Google recently thrilled students from top Nigeria universities, media personalities, celebrities and consumers to a mega Spark party to mark the launch of Spark 2 smartphone held at the Muri Okunola Park in Lagos.

The former head of China’s government-run Buddhist association has been removed as abbot of a Beijing temple following a sexual assault investigation, officials said.