In a swift riposte to the threat by Governor Adams Oshiomhole that the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) would kill people in Edo State if the party was defeated in Saturday’s governorship election, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday said the governor had shown that he was not motivated by genuine service to the people but by some deep-seated selfish interest.

THIS year’s edition of the Microsoft Imagine Cup Competition — the football World Cup equivalent in software design — saw no fewer than 350,000 budding software experts from 75 countries worldwide gathering at the convention centre in Sydney, Australia to compete in different categories like software design, game design, IT challenge, Windows Azure challenge, Kinnect fun Labs challenge, Windows Azure challenge and Windows phone challenge, with health care solutions dominating entries.

The Justice Alfa Belgore-led Presidential Committee on Constitution Review has pushed back proposals for a single tenure for the president and governors to President Goodluck Jonathan.

Federal Government has granted scholarships to winners of the Cowbell National Secondary School Mathematics Competition, who emerged last week.

EBONYI State Police Command yesterday tear gassed and assaulted workers and National officials of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, led by Comrade Marcus Omokhuale who were in the state to conduct the state council election.