A DELTA State University don, Dr Jackson Ireyefoju, has declared that all academic appointments in tertiary institutions must be based on merit and credibility and not on tribal sentiments, even as he tasked the five ethnic groups in the Institution to remain united.

Two men, aged 18 and 22 years respectively, were on Thursday killed by thunder, the Chairman, Goronyo Local Government Council of Sokoto State, Alhaji Zubairu Yari, has said.

Lagos lawyer, Mr Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has dragged the Lekki Concession Company Ltd, LCC, and Lagos State Government, before a Lagos High Court, praying the court to restrain them from collecting toll, tariff or any such levy from him (Ebun-Olu) or any other person for the purpose of granting access to and use of any portion of the Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lagos, which is under going expansion.

The Petroleum Tanker Drivers Union, Benin Depot, PTD, yesterday raised alarm over the presence of killer kerosene currently in circulation in the state.

GOVERNOR Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State yesterday inaugurated an 18-man committee to look into conflicts in the concession, expansion and tolling of the Lekki-Epe Expressway