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.

By Olasunkanmi Akoni LAGOS—THE Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Mohammed, yesterday, charged the executive arm of government to accord the judiciary its respect in all ramifications to carry out its constitutional duties without fear or favour. Server controversy : INEC boss lied on oath – Timi Frank(Opens in a new browser tab) Justice Mohammed […]

THE pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, yesterday, berated a Second Republic lawmaker, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, for describing leaders of the group as noisemakers.

SOUTH WEST governors, yesterday, warned that they were not bastards, following the spate of killings and insecurity in the region. They also said they are prepared to protect their people against external attacks.

Three crew members of a ship, who allegedly stole 8000 litres of petroleum products worth N8.4 million, were yesterday arraigned before a Lagos Magistrate’s Court, sitting in Igbosere.

Edo State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Anselm Ojezua, in this interview, faults the recommendations of the House of Representatives committee on the Edo legislative crisis, saying the federal lawmakers’ Intervention has worsened the problem in the   state.

THE lifeless bodies of the remaining two persons trapped in the three-storey building that collapsed at Abraka, Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State, have been recovered from the rubble.