Justice Adebukola Banjoko of an Abuja high court sitting in Gudu, yesterday, fixed June 24, to decide the merit of separate applications filed before her by former Senate Committee Chairman on Power, Sen. Nicholas Yahaya Ugbane and his House of Rep. counterpart, Hon. Godwin Ndudi Elumelu, asking her to hands-off their criminal trial.

AS Chief Alphonsus Igbeke gets set to be sworn in next week as the senator representing Anambra North Senatorial zone in place of Senator Joy Emordi who has been representing the zone since 2007, the people of the area are insisting that there is need for the judicial process on the matter to be exhausted before the Senate takes final decision on the issue.

IT was encomiums galore as the remains of late Chief Jerome Udoji, whose committee’s recommendation for reforms in the civil service led to the famous Udoji Award of 1974 that uplifted the standard of living of the country’s civil servants, was yesterday laid to rest in his country home at Ozubulu in Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra State.

Every Nigerian should feel free to live in any part of the nation. I am surprised that we have no value for life. People have been killed in Jos but nobody has lost his job or sentenced to jail. It is very shameful our government cannot protect the weak from the strong.

Three policemen yesterday at a Maiduguri High Court identified three suspects as members of the Boko Haram sect.