Mr. James Olayemi, a staff Abuja Electricity Distribution Company Company AEDC has been slammed with six months imprisonment with an option of a fine N50, 000 by a magistrate court sitting in Lokoja for unlawful disconnection of electricity supply to a customer’s house in Lokoja, Kogi State.

Troops of Operation Delta Safe, deactivated several illegal refining sites and recovered large volumes of refined petroleum products and crude oil in the last two weeks.

Alhaji Nura Jibrin, the Village Head of Dutsen Abba in Zaria Local Government, Kaduna State said his three children who were abducted alongside four other residents of the village on June 9, have escaped. 

The Kaduna State Government says 11 hostages escaped from bandits’ camps as security operations progress in the state.

President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan says the National Assembly has approved extra-budgetary funding for modern equipment to enhance fire power and operational needs of the armed forces.

An NGO, Media Awareness and Justice Initiative (MAJI), on Wednesday, charged journalists on the use of data in reporting, especially on environmental issues.

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested three armed bandits; Adamu Shehu, Tukur Mohammed and Ibrahim Suleiman while on an attack mission in Katsina state, with three AK 47 rifles among other dangerous items recovered them.

The Enugu State Traditional Rulers Council has outlawed girl-child marriage and other forms of gender-based harmful practices in the state.