Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has condemned Sunday's kidnapping of the father of the Secretary to the State Government, Chief Arthur Okowa, describing it as a criminal act that has no link with the Niger Delta crisis.

The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has slammed a six-count charge of fraud and forgery against billionaire business mogul and Chairman of NICON Group of Companies, Barrister Jimoh Ibrahim.

In a bid to find a lasting solution to the on-going crisis rocking the Ekiti State House of Assembly, the state chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is approaching the issue from different fronts as Prince Gbadebo Ibuoye, the chairman of the peace committee set up by the party for reconciliation of the two factional groups in the House has assured the people of an end to the crisis soon.

The Action Congress (AC) has dismissed as fake, the concern expressed by President Umar Yar?Adua in his speech in the United Kingdom that the Nigerian government does not recognise the recent election of President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe.

It was horror in Awka on Wednesday when two persons were killed by flood caused by the heavy rain on Tuesday evening.