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The acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Prof Daniel Pondei, has collapsed. The NDDC bossa faintedwhere he was seated after the members of the House. Committee on NDDC grilled him for about 45 minutes. Pondei has been rushed out of the Conference Room 231, venue of the investigative hearing on illegal spending and mismanagement of funds close to 40billion Naira

The State Police Command on Friday paraded three suspects in connection with the killings of people at Akinyele Local Government Area of Ibadan, the state capital. No fewer than five persons were killed in six attacks in Akinyele area in June this year. Among those killed was an 18-year-old teenager, Barakat Bello, a pregnant woman, Azeezat Shomuyiwa, 21-year-old student, Grace Oshiagwu, Olusayo Fagbemi, and a five-year old boy, identified only as Mujeeb. A 45-year-old woman, Adeola Bamidele, and her daughter, Dolapo Bamidele, were also attacked in June but survived. Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Joe Nwachukwu Enwonwu, while parading the suspects in Ibadan on Friday, gave their names as Sunday Sodipe, Adedokun Yinusa and Shehu Usman. Exhibits recovered from the suspects include one shovel, one techno mobile phone, one iPhone Xmax and one Itel phone. The Commissioner of Police said, “The assailants troubling the settled water at Akinyele Local Government Area and some suspecte...

Former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi has shared his thoughts on the ongoing probe of suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).    Peter Obi who spoke in an interview with The Sun, stated that   Ibrahim Magu's ordeal is hurting the country more than him. He also asked the federal government to focus on revamping the economy.   He said;    “What you hear today is not the news we should be hearing. What we hear today should be serious issues on the way we are going to go. We should be talking of a reliable roadmap. It should not be about how, in NDDC, Joy Nunieh slapped Akpabio, Oshiomhole vs. Obaseki, Magu this and that etc.  “We are preoccupied with travelling in the wrong direction. Just open the newspapers, including your own today and you see what the headlines will be. It is about one rascality or the other. I said even during the presidential election that you can fight thieves, but that...