A state rich in human resources but until recently plagued by monstrous proxy rulers counts its blessings at its twentieth anniversary.

Permit me to voice my opinion in the ongoing reforms in the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), the ruling party.

The PDP is on the march again in the quest for leadership. As watchers, we are seeing political gladiators throwing in their caps into the ring for leadership position.

THE University of Ibadan lost property estimated at N10billion to the flood disaster that ravaged Ibadan city last Friday.

Men of the Delta State Police Command have arrested a girl (names withheld), whose alleged confessional statement led to the arrest of her boyfriend, a suspected kidnapper.

The West African Examinations Council, WAEC, yesterday urged the general public to disregard any other result apart from the one released on August 10, 2011 on the Council’s result checkers website. This followed complaints of contradictory results posted on the council’s website.

A consultant physician and endocrinologist at the Otibhor-Okhai Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Dr. Akhuemokhan Kennedy, yesterday, said that of the estimated 58 million people who die globally from diseases, cardiovascular disease, CVD, accounted for over 30 per cent.

Following the diminishing health status of Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, Kano State Government has suspended the age-long traditional durbar (horse race) as part of activities marking this year’s Eid-el-Fitr celebrations.

AS Muslims across the country join the rest of the world to mark this year’s Eid-El-Fitri, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday urged all Nigerians irrespective of their religion to support President Goodluck Jonathan in his determination to bring about development in the country.

TRADE Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, yesterday, called on the Federal Government to apply the same level of force used to cripple the Movement for Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, and Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND, on Boko Haram, arguing that operations of the trio were not as dastardly as what Boko Haram has inflicted on the nation.

A major tragedy was averted during Eld-el-Fitri celebration in Yola yesterday as the military intercepted about eight heavily armed terrorists heading towards the main Eid praying ground ostensibly to attack Muslim faithfuls observing the prayers.

The Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, has read riot act to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for declining the party access to inspect the Biometric Database used during the last voter registration exercise and during the general elections.

There is tension in Kaduna State following reports that two shops belonging to Christians which were among those rebuilt after they were razed in the last April election violence in Kafanchan, Jema’a Local Government Area, were burnt again.

MUSLIMS all over the world are celebrating the end of their fasting, the Ramadan. The annual spiritual ritual that lasts 30 days. It is a period of spiritual re-birth for the faithful who observe its tenets and learn the lessons of sacrifice and selflessness.

Former militants and youth activists in the Niger Delta region have described as a “miscarriage of justice” the refusal of the Federal Government to arrest and prosecute members of the Boko Haram sect in the wake of the spate of bomb attacks in Abuja and other parts of the North