A 28-year-old teacher, Idowu Daniel, was yesterday, remanded in prison custody by an Ikeja Chief Magistrate’s Court for allegedly defiling a 17-year-old secondary school student.

Chairman, Board of the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, ERA/FoEN, Mr Nnimmo Bassey, has received an honorary degree at the University of York, United Kingdom, alongside 15 others, such as Game of Thrones star, Mark Addy; photojournalist, Lynsey Addario; video game designer, Charles Cecil; paediatrician, Professor Diana Gibb; historian, Professor Catherine Hall, and biologist and Nobel Prize winner, Richard Henderson.

ABEOKUTA— A faction of the suspended Local government Chairmen in Ogun State, under the aegis of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria, in the state, yesterday, called on the Governor Dapo Abiodun to probe his predecessor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, on how 33 months of Local government allocations were spent.

Former Super Eagles captain, Sunday Oliseh has said he was baffled that Nigerians were celebrating a  third-place finish at the just concluded Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt.

Lagos— A 37-year-old woman, Adetoun Ogunjobi, who allegedly recorded a video of a man and shared it on social media without his consent, was yesterday brought before a Lagos Magistrate’s Court, sitting in Igbosere.

YENAGOA—THREE ladies, Okuboere, Seifefa and Amara, travelling from Lagos to Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital, were reportedly abducted Sunday afternoon by suspected kidnappers along the Okada axis of Edo State.

Former Super Eagles goalkeeper trainer Ike Shorunmo has made appeal for efforts to develop the Nigerian leagues and quality of play for a better national team.

Imo State governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in the general election, Senator Hope Uzodimma, has called on Igbo living in the North and herdsmen living in the South to remain at their duty posts and not panic or rush back home out of fear for their security, assuring them that the Federal Government would protect them.

No amount of innovations introduced can practically solve the myriads of gridlock across Lagos metropolis, unless basic factors are into force.

Benjamin Uwajumogu, Senator-elect of Imo North, yesterday, led some protesters to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, headquarters over the non-issuance of a certificate of return to him.

ABUJA—Erstwhile chairman of National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, Prof Chidi Odinkalu, yesterday, approached the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, asking it to abort plan by the commission to administer oath of secrecy/confidentiality on its staff.

OKAMBI—A native of Okambi community in Obudu Local Government Area, Cross River State, Mr. Raphael Ushie, collapsed and breathed his last after the state government bulldozed his palm trees’ estate in Okambi, his labour of many years for its proposed international passenger and cargo airport, which spreads across four communities in Obudu Area.

The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Stuart Symington, has commended the commitment of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State to reforms, especially in areas of political and economic development.

No fewer than 50 suspected robbers that specialised  in operating during traffic gridlock, have been arrested by the Police in Lagos in the past two weeks.

THE Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, yesterday, insisted that the Boko Haram insurgency has been substantially degraded.