The endorsement of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the Northern consensus candidate for next year’s presidential election has been hailed by PDP stalwarts and prominent Benue indigenes.

FORMER Governor Rashidi Ladoja, Senator Lekan Balogun and other perceived opponents of Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala have been invited by the Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Baba Adisa Bolanta over the mayhem that engulfed Ogbomoso some weeks ago.

Ekiti State Government Tuesday gave insight into the alleged over N40 billion debt left for the new administration by the ousted government led by Engr Segun Oni.

UNION Assurance Co. Ltd, a subsidiary of Union Bank of Nigeria PLC, has lauded National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) for its Market Development Restructuring(MDR) initiatives, saying it will boost insurance penetration and up income generation for insurers in the country.

AT least one operative of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has died in a mob attack at Owo, Ondo State, while trying to seize 2,300kg of cannabis.

In a bid to ensure that Nokia users do not fall prey to vendors of counterfeit devices, the world’s leading manufacturer of mobile devices has perfected an sms warranty system through which people can tell the genuineness of the phone they are about to purchase.

CIVIL Liberties Organisation, CLO, Tuesday in Lagos blamed security agencies, particularly Nigeria Police, as well as Ogun State government, for what it described as lack of timely and effective management of recurring violent crisis that allegedly resulted in recent death of no fewer than four persons in Ado-Odo area of Ogun State.

Edo State Peoples Congress, ESPC, a Niger-Delta peace development group, has concluded plans to organise a two-million man peaceful rally to protest against political crisis rocking the Niger Delta region.

PRESIDENT of Delta Progressives, Prince Ogagaoghene Ogboko has promised that Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan would be return to office as Governor of Delta State.

THE legal battle at the Court of Appeal, Enugu, over control of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, structure in the state resumed Tuesday, even as some stakeholders of the party from the three senatorial zones of the state left for Abuja to attend a meeting summoned by the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, to seek ways of resolving the political crisis.