No fewer than 500 rice farms at Okpotuwari and Ondewari communities in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa, have been submerged by flood, newsmen report.

A major player in the nation’s oil and gas sector and philanthropist, Sir Emeka Offor, has given out books worth millions of Naira to selected tertiary institutions across Nigeria and some African countries.

The indigenous People of Niger Delta, IPND, has congratulated Presidential candidates of the various political parties for their victories at the sundry primaries held last week, tasking them to make a wholesome development of the Niger Delta region a top priority.

PORT HARCOURT: A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has again sacked the elected executives of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State led by Hon. Ojukaye Flag-Amachree.

Mexico said 37,485 people are missing in the country, adding the official number is likely higher.

 The President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, has administered the oath of office on Lawal Gumau (APC- Bauchi South) and Ahmed Babba-Kaita (APC- Katsina North) as senators of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The Nigerian senate Wednesday confirmed the appointment of Mr. Banire, Muiz Adeyemi Ph.D, SAN, as the Chairman of the governing board of the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON).

ABUJA—-THE Federal Government has denied the report that it agreed to pay N30,000 as the new minimum wage.

As Plateau residents elect chairmen and councillors into 14 of the 17 local governments, voters in some areas have decried the late arrival of electoral materials at many polling units.

 A 49 year-old vulcanizer, Olafusi Omodogbe, was on Wednesday brought before an Okitipupa Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ondo State charged with N230,000 land fraud.