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 -The decaying body of the Vicar General of the Catholic Diocese of Otukpo, Rev Father John Adeyi has been found. The priest was two months back whisked away by kidnappers on his way from Otukpa, Ogbadibo LGA of Benue State where he had gone to settle a crack in a neighborhood church. His body was dumped in a homestead in his nation home. 

- Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has denied having hands in the process that introduced him as the speaker of the eighth senate.
He said the fabrication of evidence against him before the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, was organized to disgrace him, including that he was not part of the initiative of the seventh Senate that made the guidelines being referred to and that preceding his consistent decision as Senate President on June 9, 2015, he was simply a Senator-elect like every one of his associates, and in this way, was not in a position to impact the tenets that were utilized as a part of the behavior of the race.
-  President Muhammadu Buhari has cautioned public office holders to be careful. As indicated by him, his administration would not follow anyone who had not touched the country's treasury. Buhari who tended to State House reporters, added that he was oversensitive to corruption, subsequently, his battle to wipe it out from Nigeria. 

-  There are reports that the Department of State Services (DSS) has picked previous Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lieutenant-General Azubuike Ihejirika (rtd).
The DSS captured the previous armed force boss, Tuesday near  his house in Maitama, Abuja, for addressing, regarding the misappropriation of the arms stores under previous national security guide, Col. Sambo Dasuki.

-  The authority of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has consented to suspend its strike after a meeting with other wellbeing part partners on Tuesday. The Association's authority likewise spoke to individuals to suspend the strike until the following meeting booked for July 14.
The choice arose from the meeting between inhabitant specialists and different partners, sorted out by the Speaker, House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogàra in Abuja. 

- Uknown shooters suspected to be Fulani herders in the early hours of Wednesday struck four towns and killed 13 persons in two neighborhood government ranges of Logo and Ukum in the Benue State.
The Benue State Police Command's Public Relations Officer, ASP Moses Yamu, affirmed that four individuals were executed in the Vaase people group of Ukum while three cadavers were recouped in Anyiin and one in Uzer in Logo LGA of the state. He said five cadavers were recuperated from Tsukwa.
-  Justice Kabiru Auta of a Kano High Court on Wednesday sentenced the enemy of a Kano-based business magnate, philantropist and Yoruba pioneer, Alhaji Ganiyu Akanbi Bello, to death by hanging.
The blamed individual, Abubakar Abdulrahaman (a.k.a Daddy), 28, was discovered liable on one-count charge of  crime, deserving death, while he was released and vindicated in another charge of outfitted burglary.
Abubakar was blamed for killing Bello on June 5, 2014 in his habitation at the GRA Nassarawa, inverse Kano Race Course, when he wounded the perished in the heart with a kitchen knife. 

-  The Senate has summoned Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Babachir Lawal, before its Committee on Foreign Affairs over the affirmed oversights and abnormalities in ambassadorial designation. The legislators said that the SGF and the clergyman would clarify the procedures that prompted determination of candidates before screening of the chosen people would begin.
- The Ohaneze Ndigbo Youth Council, OYC, has cautioned Niger Delta Avengers against risk to bomb Abia State, saying that there was nobody from IPOB/MASSOB in the State as claimed by the Avengers. They likewise approached the Avengers to embrace peace and permit peace to rule for the benefit of the general population of  the Niger Delta.