Barely two days after the new governor of Ekiti State was sworn in, the Speaker of the Ekiti House of Assembly Rt. Hon. Funminiyi Afuye is dead.An Ekiti All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain told newsmen: “We lost the Speaker Ekiti State House of Assembly to ‘cardiac arrest.”The caused of the unusual cardiac arrest is yet to be ascertianed. It is reported that the speaker is hale and agile.

Madam Joan Onyemachi Mrapkpor, the former Commissioner for Higher Education in Delta State and widely known as “Ada Anioma,” was kidnapped on Tuesday during a church service in Asaba, Delta State.Mrapkpor, who recently resigned from her position as a member of the House of Representatives to support her younger brother’s bid for a local government council chairmanship, was abducted from her church located off Delta Broadcasting Service Street.An eyewitness reported,...

Operatives of the Delta State Police Command have arrested three suspected gunrunners involved in manufacturing and supplying guns to armed robbers and kidnappers. The suspects, Tega Dierunaba, 44, from Ororokpe community in Okpe LGA, Delta State; Chibiuke Anuforo Cosmas, 42, from Orlu Town in Nkwerre LGA, Imo State; and Sunday Moses Pam, 36, from Von community in Jos South LGA, Plateau State, were apprehended following an intensive intelligence-led investigation. T...