NONE of the eight Akwa Ibom National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members, abducted by bandits along Zamfara highway en route to Orientation Camp, in Sokoto State, on August 17, has escaped or been freed, according to their families.

Tragedy struck, yesterday, in the Ago, Okota area of Isolo Local Government Area, LGA, of Lagos State, when a vehicle, chased by an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, ran into a tricycle, killing a pregnant woman, her two children and the tricycle operator.

‘If any culpability is detected, it will attract appropriate disciplinary action and immediate corrective measures to ensure that such incidents do not recur’

The collapsed building of the Mission Ward branch of Dunamis Church, in the North Bank area of Makudi town, has claimed the life of a Pastor and left four others with serious injuries.

Lagos State Police Command, yesterday, said it has detained singer, Mr. Azeez Fashola, aka Naira Marley, amid investigation into the death of late singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba, aka Mohbad.

The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Police Command, yesterday, said it arrested and charged 14 male suspects to court for falsely claiming that their male organs had disappeared, prompting separate mob actions that would have led to the death of innocent people.

Perturbed by the rising cases of sexual and gender-based violence, SGBV, in the country, the federal government said yesterday it has commenced the process of reviewing all the existing legal frameworks.

The House of Representatives has mandated its committee on pensions to investigate the status of pension fund assets amounting to over N15.5 trillion.

STUDENTS of the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, in Osun State, yesterday, shut the school entrance gates over the refusal of the management to reduce the recently hiked tuition fees.

Led by the leadership of the Great Ife Students’ Union, Abbas Akinremi, the students shut the entrance and exit gates of the school, preventing workers from accessing the campus.

THE Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Mr. Olamide Oladiji, yesterday, directed the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Olusegun Odusola, to constitute a 7-man panel to probe the allegations levelled against the embattled deputy governor, Mr Lucky Aiyedatiwa, over his failure to respond to the letter of notice served on him.

A cocktail of criminal gangs and violent cartels ranging from the infamous ‘unknown gunmen’ to armed political thugs, suspected rogue agents of the state and free lance armed gangs and contract killers seem to be in open competition for supremacy.  

GOVERNOR Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State and the Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC, yesterday, commended the judgment of the Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, saying the verdict was diligent and meticulous.

The perceived attempt by the Northern elites and leaders to Islamise Nigeria and subjugate other religions is a critical contributor to religious mistrust and violence in Nigeria

Pope Francis has suggested he would be open to having the Catholic Church bless same-sex unions.

What is very clear is that some of these young people could be global citizens in the months and years ahead based on what the state has bequeathed to them
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