Abuja—The Nigerian Army has dismissed reports that the charred remains of a dead man pulled out of Du Pond in Jos, Plateau State, is the missing Major General Alkali(retd).

NIGERIA’s flagbearer Enyimba Football Club of Aba have virtually won all available trophies on the continent but are desirous of annexing the Total CAF Confederation Cup that is yet to grace their impressive trophy cabinet.

Fresh trouble may be looming between heavyweight Fuji music icons, Ayinde Wasiu, popularly known as K1 and Alhaji Abass Akande Obesere, as Obesere’s management has responded to the insults K1’s aide recently rained on him.

THE President of the Nigeria Gas Association, NGA, Dada Thomas, yesterday blamed the current gas pricing, lack of certainty of contracts and infrastructural deficit to crisis rocking the country’s power sector.

Four state governors have granted pardons to no fewer than 340 prisoners in their states as part of Nigeria’s 58 independence celebration.

Lagos residents, motorists as well as commuters have continued to lament and groan under deplorable conditions of roads across the metropolis without an end in sight to the nightmare. 

WITH the People’s Democratic Party, PDP,  national convention slated for Friday October6 in Port Harcourt, River state capital, the stage is now evidently set for this crucial  political exercise designed to elect the party’s presidential flag bearer in the 2019 presidential election. Although over seventeen aspirants are jostling to clinch the party’s presidential ticket to challenge the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari in an epic political battle, one aspirant stands out as one who holds a strong ace and therefore greatly dreaded by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. He is Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.

FAMOUS Handball club in Nigeria, the Imo Grasshoppers maintained their unbeaten run in the on-going Prudent Energy Handball league at the Mobolaji Johnson Sports Complex, Rowe Park in Yaba, Lagos as they overpowered Delta Queens 31-21 to brighten their chances of clinching the trophy in the Women category.

OWERRI—THE Kogi State Commissioner of Police, Ali Janga, has resumed duty  in Imo State, for the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship primaries today.

ABUJA—Almost eight weeks after the senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, opted to remain in the party after many of his colleagues had defected to Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, he is yet to be assured of the ticket of All Progressives Congress, APC, to be able to return to the upper legislative chamber of the National Assembly next year.