PORT HARCOURT—WILD jubilation erupted in Rivers State, yesterday, following military confirmation that notorious kidnapper, cultist and killer, Johnson Igwedibia, aka Don Waney, has been killed by security operatives.

ONE of the gruesome highlights of 2017 was the exposé on the outrageous return of the long-abolished trans-Saharan slave trade occasioned by nefarious activities of human traffickers.

Itsekiri National Youth Council, INYC, Niger Delta Indigenous Movement for Radical Change, NDIMRC and some Ijaw leaders, weekend, expressed divergent views over the recent memo by Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to the National Assembly that correct location of the proposed Nigerian Maritime University, NMU, is Okerenghigho, and not Okerenkoko.

LAGOS—To address the current scarcity of fuel across the country, stakeholders weekend, recommended among others, for more participation of private sector in the importation of product and the involvement of all security agencies and Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, in the monitoring of products distribution to check smuggling.

Victims of the Nigeria/Biafra civil war, yesterday, said the Federal Government had yet to pay them, more than two months after it agreed to release N88 billion for their compensation.