OGUN State government has faulted insinuations that unspecified number of new born babies were stolen at one of the government hospitals, Oba Ademola Hospital, Ijemo, Abeokuta.

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ward congress in Ogun State was marred Tuesday as the two factions of the party held separate congresses at some designated areas.

FORMER Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Rowland Owie, Tuesday, faulted the call by some Nigerians that a new voter’s register should be used for the forthcoming gubernatorial re-run election in Delta State.

SENATE President and Speaker of the House of Representatives, have been called upon to save the Itsekiri ethnic nation from what is perceived as an orchestrated marginalisation by the minister in charge of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs.

In a bid to tackle the housing shortfall in the Coastal Communities in Delta State, Chevron-created Itsekiri Regional Development Committee, IRDC, has awarded contract for the construction of 70 housing units for 23 oil and gas producing and impacted communities.

Ccandidate of the Peoples Redemption Party, PRP, in next month’s governorship re-run election in Delta State, Mr. Emmanuel Igbini, Tuesday, said he was in support of the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to hold the poll on January 6 and also use the 2006 voters’ register.

RUNNING mate to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate in the Delta State gubernatorial re-run election, Prof. Amos Utuama, Tuesday, said the PDP was the only party that holds the future for the people of the state.

PEOPLES Progressive Party, PPP, has condemned Christmas eve’s bomb blasts in Jos, which reportedly claimed several lives. Calling on the Federal Government to bring those behind the blasts to book, national leader of the party, Mr Solomon Edebiri, who spoke in Port Harcourt, described the blasts as an act of terrorism.