AKWA Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio, yesterday, expressed appreciation to people of the state for their massive turn out and show of solidarity during his declaration for re-election at Uyo, on Monday.

Chairman of Izon Okosu-Otu (Ijaw Elders’ Council), Delta State, Chief Bare Etolor, has said Ijaw are not against Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan’s re-election but would resist party primaries/elections of Ijaw representatives conducted outside its territory as done in the past.

Senator Polycarp Ogbonna Nwite, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Political Matters is dead.

AS a demonstration of her determination to give the people of Ika Federal Constituency effective, qualitative and result oriented representation, a female Poeples Democratic Party, PDP, aspirant to the National Assembly in the 2011 elections, Dr. Isioma Okobah, has commenced free medical services to the people of Ika in Delta State.

NATIONAL President of the Ighele r’ Urhobo (youth wing) of the Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, in Delta State, Mr Avwerosuoghene Okoro, who was summoned on Wednesday, by the Police in Abraka, over the recent fracas in Eku, alleged, yesterday, that his life was under threat.

FOR four young Nigerian agri-business entrepreneurs, Ikpegbu Tochukwu, Nonso Okafor, Wale Chase and Adesope Samuel, the first Harambe agri-business competition award day will remain ever green in their lives. Reason? It was the day they were rewarded with a monetary award of N7.5 million and training with the EDS, Fate Foundation and Ideabuilders towards building their agro initiatives.

WORRIED by the high level of insecurity in the country, especially in Abia and other South East states where kidnapping and other violent crimes have assumed a frightening dimension, Abia State government has called for the convening of a national security summit to x-ray the insecurity problem and seek a lasting solution to it.