With less than a week to Christmas, it was a black Thursday in Edo State as at least six people lost their lives over a land dispute between two Edo communities.

WARRI:  The Nigerian Navy has dismissed and sentenced  three of its personnel to five months imprisonment for stealing valuables at Mieka jetty ( previously owned by ex militant leader Tompolo) in Warri, Delta state.

In the preliminary investigation already done by the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC headed by the Chief Prosecutor, Ms Fatou Bensouda, over the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the course of the violence, six cases have reportedly been established against the terrorists.

FIVE thousand, five hundred angry marchers tramped through the streets of Brussels on Sunday protesting against the United Nations Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.  Their claims include  that the Pact would encourage migration and criminality. They also claim that the Pact blurs   the distinction between legal and illegal migration.  For them, it is time Belgium shuts its borders against migration of any kind.

President Muhammadu Buhari has called on the Police and other security agents to ensure that the 2019 elections do not witness snatching of ballot boxes and other crimes associated with elections.

Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has said it will sanction any telecommunications operator in Nigeria, which engages in  what it described as forceful subscription and unlawful deductions from consumers.

THE  Presidency, yesterday, said the recommendations of the Presidential Steering Committee on African Continental Free Trade Area, AfCFTA,Impact and Readiness Assessment will be presented to President Muhammadu Buhari in January 2019. 

OSOGBO—THERE was palpable tension last week in Edunabon, Ife North-West Local Council Development Area of Osun State as two princes lay claim to the throne of Salu of Edunabon.

Nigeria’s Super Eagles will play an international friendly against the Pharaohs of Egypt on March 26.

The Federal Government has commissioned a Mobile Radio Frequency Monitory Equipment in Abuja.

FARMERS in  the country have assured President Muhammadu Buhari of 12.2 million votes and a donation of N1.77 billion to support his campaign for re-election in the 2019 elections.

WATCHERS of the renascent  Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  from the devastation of the 2015 loss of power to All Progressives Congress, APC, into a formidable opposition party,  must give credit to Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa, Delta state governor for the pragmatic role he played in the entire rebirth process.

Senator Enyinnaya  Abaribe, a former Deputy Governor of Abia State, is the leader of the South East Senate Caucus and also the Chairman, Senate Committee on Power, Steel Development and Metallurgy.

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has called on the leadership and members of the Nigerian Legion in the state to reconcile their differences.

Nigeria’s Super Eagles have ended the year placed 44th on the FIFA rankings for the month of December. The same position they occupied in November.