President Muhammadu Buhari has extended his condolences over the passing of the former Military Governor of the defunct North Central State, retired Brig.-Gen. Abba Kyari.

UGHELLI—Palace chiefs in Ogor Kingdom, Delta State, had hectic time, weekend, preventing aggrieved members of the community from taking the corpse of a 54-year-old pipeline guard, Anthony Ejabare, reportedly killed by herdsmen into the palace.

ONE week after the deadly attack on the Nigerian Army formation in Metele village of Borno State by Boko Haram terrorists resulting in heavy casualty on the side of the Nigerian troops, the Nigerian Air Force had reportedly dealt a heavy blow on the terrorists by bombing their location and killing some of them.

Makurdi—No fewer than 13 suspected members of a cult were, Saturday night, reportedly hacked to death in a major fracas with youths of Lessel community in Ushongo Local Government Area of Benue State.

ABUJA—FORMER Chief of Defence Staff, General Martin Luther Agwai, has explained that troops battling Boko Haram terrorists in the North East were suffering casualties because they were not fighting conventional warfare.