WIFE of Cross River State Governor, Mrs. Obioma Imoke, has decried the alleged high rate of HIV/AIDS in the state, saying that the state being adjudged as such was unacceptable.

Asaba – DELTA State Director of Security Service, SSS, Mrs. Florence Ikanone, yesterday, said the command had recorded a major breakthrough in cracking the die-hard kidnap syndicate that had terrorised the state.

Imo State governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, has threatened to invite the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to quiz and prosecute those found to have defrauded government-owned Imo Palm Plantation.

FOLLOWING the marching order handed down to security agencies in Delta State to investigate and bring to book, those fingered in the reported employment scam in the state, some of the officers, it was gathered are already jittery.

WARRI – AN ex-militant commander in Delta State, Mark Ebiotu, alias Single Bullet, yesterday, said what could have been a bloodbath between the Ijaw and Itsekiri ethnic groups during last weekend’s regatta by the Itsekiri to honour the Olu of Warri, was warded off by ex-militants, who rebuffed sponsors of the aborted war.

THE College of Health Sciences of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, OAU, has produced 3,350 medical personnel comprising 2,900 medical doctors and 450 dental surgeons in the last 40 years.

FOR the 36 state houses of assembly in Nigeria, it is a new dawn with the emergence of a new leadership to direct the affairs of the Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures of Nigeria (CSSLN). The seven newly elected executive members of the conference were inaugurated last weekend.

That many Nigerians spend several millions of Naira to build and furnish their exotic homes is not in doubt. But the irony is that these Nigerians would not spend a Kobo to insure such properties. The reasons are not far-fetched: While many see insurance as an additional form of taxation, others say they do not have confidence in the insurance industry.

REGARDLESS of their educational qualifications,Nigerian women not only occupy fewer positions in the public sector, but earn consistently less income than their male counterparts.

BENIN – Benin Traditional Council, BTC, has warned politicians to stop using the name, pictures and image of the Oba of Benin, Oba Erediauwa, in their campaigns.