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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike addressing corps members   during his condolence visit to the state NYSC  headquarters  over the death of  Samuel Okonta,  corps  member  killed  during  Rivers rerun elections. (Nigeria) Rivers State Government will immortalise Mr Samuel Okonta,  the Corps member who lost his life during the  rerun  legislative  elections  in  the State,  Governor Nyesom Wike has  announced. 

(Nigeria) Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has poured encomiums on the President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Rev. Felix Omobude, describing him as a man of God who provided a platform for young Nigerians to acquire skills in technical education.

(Nigeria) Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, has described the  12-man committee on human rights set up by the army to investigate human rights abuses from clashes with the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and Rivers State election rerun among others as nothing but a deceit and charade.

(Nigeria) Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has expressed dissatisfaction with the low power supply by the Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC, to Edo State, saying it posed a threat to security in the state.

(Nigeria) The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday,  separated the charges‎, filed against former boss of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Patrick Akpobolokemi and eight others and that of Government Ekpemupolo (also known as Tompolo).

(Nigeria) The refusal of the Department of the State Security Service, DSS, to produce former National Security Adviser,  NSA, Col Sambo Dasuki (retd) before an Abuja High Court on Wednesday, stalled him trial.

(Nigeria) The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCCon Tuesday, arraigned former militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo (aka Tompolo) in absentia  over a N35 billion fraud.

(Nigeria) No fewer than nine persons were burnt to death in a ghastly motor accident at the 135 axis of the Enugu-Abakaliki express road on Tuesday.

(Nigeria) Chief Inegite Jonathan,72 ,uncle and foster father to former President Goodluck Jonathan abducted by gunmen on Feb. 17 has regained his freedom.

(Nigeria) Speaker of Osun State House of Assembly, Mr Najeem Salaam, said the assembly would soon review the state’s criminal law to provide for death penalty for kidnapping in the state.

(Nigeria) Some waste collectors, who are aggrieved, on Tuesday staged a peaceful protest in Benin, against the alleged harassment of some of their colleagues by agents working for the Ministry of Environment, Edo State.

(Nigeria) The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun on Tuesday in Abuja, said that N345 billion was shared among the federal, states and local governments as revenue for February 2015.

(Nigeria) Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State on Tuesday, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately order full-scale investigation into election-related killings in Rivers and Bayelsa states.

(Nigeria) Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, members in the House of Representatives, on Tuesday urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to immediately release results of re-run elections in Rivers.

(Nigeria) The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has threatened to review the Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, it signed with Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to ensure better protection of corps members during elections.

(Nigeria) The United States Government on Tuesday, condemned reported violence and irregularities that rocked last Saturday’s re-run elections in Rivers State.

(Nigeria)The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to probe the crisis that characterised Saturday’s legislative re-run elections in Rivers State.

(Nigeria) The Minister of State for Education, Prof. Anthony Anwukah, has constituted a panel to investigate alleged sexual assault on a female student of Queens College, Lagos by a male teacher.

(Nigeria) Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Tuesday in Port Harcourt urged the media to abstain from sentiments and ensure unbiased reportage in the re-run elections in the state.

(Nigeria) Chairman of the Delta State   House of Assembly Committee on Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Mr  Dennis Omovie has said the state House of Assembly was not aware of the existence of DESOPADEC budget for 2016.

(Nigeria) Urhobo Renewal Initiative, has sad  that the counter directive by some highly respected personalities and kings to suspend the duly and constitutionally backed executives of Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, led by Chief Joe Omene as its president general remains invalid, null and void.

(Nigeria) Nigeria Customs Service has re-introduced the restriction order on  importation of rice through land borders across the country.

(Nigeria) The All Progressives congress in Ekiti State has written to the National Assembly, calling the attention of the lawmakers to what it described as propaganda by Governor Ayodele Fayose in the media to mislead them and the general public on Ekiti State crisis.

European Confederation of Police, EuroCOP,  the umbrella organisation for over 30 police unions and staff organisations in Europe, has expressed concern the dangers and threats facing European citizens, as police and security personnel are engaged in dealing with multiple explosions and major incidents on European soil.

(Nigeria) All is now set for the take-off of the Tayo Akpata University of Education, Ekiadolor, Edo State as Governor Adams Oshiomhole has emphasized the need to upgrade the quality of teachers in order to improve the quality of learning in schools.

 (Nigeria) Two persons have died in an early morning fire incident which razed over 100 shanties in Kuramo, near Lekki in Lagos State.

(Nigeria) Yunusa Dahiru, the alleged abductor of Ese Oruru, was on Monday granted bail in the sum of N3 million and two sureties in like sum by the Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.

(Nigeria) The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to immediately release all final results of Saturday’s legislative re-run elections in Rivers State.

(Nigeria) The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, has said that the desperation of All Progressives Congress, APC and agitated political office seekers to connive with certain electoral officers and military personnel to smuggle in fake election materials to rigging the election, led to the cancellation of election in some parts of the state by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC and not as a result of violence as being speculated.

(Nigeria) A Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere, has dismissed an application by a former Director -General of the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Mr. Patrick Akpobolokemi challenging its jurisdiction to try him.

(Nigeria) The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on  Monday, arraigned  one Sani Abubakar, and Bishong Obi Akatcha(now at large) before Justice M.G Umar of the Federal High Court, Gombe on a three-count charge of conspiracy, forgery and stealing to the tune of N14.85 million.

(Nigeria) Sterling Bank Plc on Monday declared profit after tax of N10.3 billion for the financial year ended December 31, 2015.

(Nigeria) Some of Africa’s leaders are responsible for instability on the continent because they have failed to manage diversity in their societies, the former Nigerian President, General Olusegun Obasanjo, has said.

(Nigeria) The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has released the results of one federal constituency and nine state assembly seats in Saturday`s re-run legislative elections in Rivers State.

(Nigeria) Senator Magnus Abe, All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate in the Rivers South East senatorial district re-run elections in Rivers State, has condemned the alleged assassination attempt on Dr. Dakuku Peterside, Director General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Chief Davies Ikanya, Chairman of APC and former deputy governorship candidate of APC in the 2015 general elections in the state, Asita O. Asita on Sunday.

(Nigeria) Lagos State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has decried in  strong terms, attempts by a section of the Nigerian Police to pervert justice, distort the facts, and stand the truth on its head in the on-going matter of battered Badagry-based Journalist, Otunba Yomi Olomofe.

(Nigeria) The Chairman of the Edo State economic team and All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship aspirant has express grate emotions and anger over the negative dimension the opposition party in the state go about their campaigning.

(Nigeria) Rivers State Governor, Mr Nyesom Wike has said that the state government has compiled videos of the atrocities  committed by the military across the  state during  the  rerun  elections,  saying  that  the  videos will be released to the  public  at the appropriate time.

(Nigeria) Determined to ensure a 24-hour power supply in the state, Cross State governor, Senator Ben Ayade has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with SkipperSeil Limited of Dubai, United Arab Emirates.  The signing of the MoU was the highlight of a three-day Middle East Electricity Exhibition which took place in Dubai, UAE.

(Nigeria) Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has approved a five percent pay rise for health workers in the state, emphasizing that the wage increment is for all health workers including laboratory technicians, nurses and midwives.

(Nigeria) Members of the Ekiti State House of Assembly have cried to the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA and Amnesty International over the refusal of the Department of State Services, DSS to obey the court order, directing the immediate release of a member of the House of Assembly, representing Efon state constituency, Afolabi Akanni.

(Nigeria) Acting Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Ibim Semenitari, has given her own account of that transpired at the Mile 1 police election incident in Rivers State.

(Nigeria) Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Sunday, said that the aide to his Chief of Staff, Mr Emeka Woke, was shot dead, when Dr. Dakuku Peterside, Director-General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, in his convoy opened fire on Woke’s car.

(Nigeria) By Emma Nmezu, Dr. Clifford Iroanya     The Nigerian Chief of Army Staff and Borno State born Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, openly confessed and admitted that soldiers of the Nigerian Army opened fire and killed defenceless Biafrans who were conducting prayer sessions inside the football field of Ngwa High Schoool, Aba in Abia state in Biafraland.

(Nigeria) A photographer, Mr. Emmanuel Okolo, has filed a N120m copyright infringement suit against musician, Innocent Idibia, popularly known as 2face, and his wife, Annie.

(Nigeria) Dr. Dakuku Peterside, Director-General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, narrowly escaped death this afternoon after his vehicle was attacked by gunmen in two utility vehicles on his way from the Port Harcourt International Airport.  

(Nigeria) The Kano Zonal Command of National Agency for the prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and other Related Matters, NAPTIP, on Sunday said it had rescued no fewer than 50 victims of human trafficking within two months.

(Nigeria) The Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Hajiya Zainab Ahmed, has said there is no plan by the Federal Government to retrench civil servants.

(Nigeria) The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said journalists in Nigeria have nothing to fear from the Nigerian government in the performance of their duties.

(Nigeria) A civil society coalition, Civil Society Network Against Corruption, CSNAC, has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to immediately invite and investigate the senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye, over what it termed excessively flamboyant and opulent lifestyle of the lawmaker.