Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani, has shed light on his administration’s decision to negotiate with bandits, who terrorised parts of the state for over a decade.

The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, has said preliminary investigations suggest that explosion at a mining site in Sabon Pegi, Mashegun Local Government Area of Niger State, on Sunday, was caused by the illegal stockpiling of explosives by one Yushua Maikampala, a resident of New Bussa.

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, on Sunday, visited the founder of Afe Babalola University Ado Ekiti (ABUAD), Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), to persuade him to drop the criminal defamation case filed against a human rights lawyer and author, Dele Farotimi.

Newly elected Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Mojisola Lasbat Meranda, has officially moved into the Speaker's office, accompanied by members of the House.

A 59-year-old man, Nwokedi Emeka Jonas, has been sentenced to five years imprisonment by a Federal High Court in Lagos for conspiracy and unlawful dealing in 4.9 kilogrammes of Canadian Loud, a drug with similar effects to cocaine and heroin.