Army, Customs intercept three trucks with 300,000 live cartridges in Ogun

Security agencies yesterday morning intercepted 300,000 cartridges that were smuggled into Nigeria through the Benin Republic border. The cartridges were concealed in a false base of three heavy-duty trucks and had successfully gone past borders until they were intercepted at Igbogila-Ilara area of Ogun State.

Odita Sunday and Sulaimon Salau

Eight killed in Bayelsa cult war

Julius Osahon (Yenagoa) From Abdulganiyu Alabi (Kaduna)

Police get N100m fine for killing driver over N100 bribe

Muyiwa Adeyemi (Head South West Bureau Ibadan)

Makinde challenges Ajimobi to name 10 new industries in Oyo

Muyiwa Adeyemi, Ibadan

Ekiti PDP faults APC’s allegation of NYSC partisanship

Ayodele Afolabi (Ado-Ekiti), Adamu Abuh (Abuja), Kevin Ebiri and Ann Godwin (Port Harcourt)

Cross River lawmaker slumps, dies during workout

Anietie Akpan, Calabar

NANS to hold summit in Awka on ‘making the certificate practical’

Ujunwa Atueyi

Berom community, herdsmen trade blame on killings

Isa Abdulsalami Ahovi, Jos

Lagos pledges more investment in infrastructure

benga Salau (Lagos) and Charles Akpeji (Jalingo)

Southern Kaduna tasks FG on rebuilding of ravaged settlements

Saxone Akhaine, Kaduna

Benue Assembly outlaws same sex marriage

Joseph Wantu, Makurdi

Pro-Biafra agitators in failed bid to seize Enugu government house

Lawrence Njoku (Enugu), Kelvin Ebiri (Port Harcourt), Charles Ogugbuaja (Owerri), Gordi Udeajah (Umuahia), Uzoma Nzeagwu (Awka), Nnamdi Akpa (Abakaliki) and Dom Ekpunobi (Onitsha)