Crisis is brewing in the Bomadi/Patani chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Delta State, as one of the candidates for the Bomadi/Patani Federal constituency, Godspower Akpos, has insisted he won the party primaries, which Dr. Chris Ekiyor, is claiming he won.

Leader of Oji-River Progressive Action, OPA, Mr. Chuks Madueke, has said that Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State and Deputy Senate President, Chief Ike Ekweremadu, should be held responsible for denying Oji River local government area, the Aninri, Awgu and Oji River House of Representatives seat slot held by the council for two terms.

AS the two-week period announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for the registration of voters draws nearer, many eligible voters were seen, yesterday, struggling to beat the deadline in Asaba, Delta State. Meanwhile, the state Commissioner for Higher Education, Prof. Hope Eghagha, has mobilised students of higher institutions across the state for the register.

FOUR armed Boko Haram militants, riding on two bikes, Sunday night ambushed a team of soldiers on a patrol in Biu town of Borno State, shot dead an officer and wounded three others.

The appointments of key officers in some of the River Basins Development Agencies, RBDAs, are being trailed by controversy as it is becoming clear that political influence was given priority over the usual basic consideration of seniority and geographical spread in the promotion of career civil servants.