SENIOR Special Assistant to Bayelsa State Governor on Conflict Resolution, Michael Wenibowei, Tuesday evening, escaped death by the whiskers when unknown gunmen attacked his residence.

THE Police High Command, yesterday, canvassed staggered polls, such that those of state governors, senators, House of Representatives members and council chairmen would be rotated on zone by zone basis.

The nation’s leading computer whiz-kids and ICT experts continued brainstorming, yesterday, on ICT solutions to the nation’s electoral system which had been bedevilled in the past by many woes as the annual conference of the Nigerian Computer Society holding in Asaba enters the third day.

DELTA State Government has restated its willingness to partner with the Nigerian Nuclear Regulator Authority, NNRA, as the state is home to a large contingent of operators, using ionising radiation in the oil and gas industry.

The two South-South states of Rivers and Delta are geographically next to each other.This close affinity appears to have rubbed off on the way they administer their schools as they have a pride of place among those states in the country that are excelling in the implementation of the Universal Basic Education programme.