Following public outrage that greeted the controversial purchase of N255 million bullet-proof vehicles for the Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday set up a three-man administrative panel to investigate the circumstances surrounding the purchase.

Progressives Peoples Alliance, PPA candidate, Godwin Ezeemo has launched his ‘Wellbeing manifesto’ in Awka, with a promise to make power supply the focal point of his administration.

Stakeholders in the education sector, yesterday, took the supervising Minister of Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike to task over his declaration that the on-going strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, would be called off in a few months.

Golden Eaglets assistant coach Nduka Ugbade has said that the coaching crew was worried over the injury sustained by striker Success Isaac in the first half of Tuesday’s group F match against Sweden at the FIFA U-17 World Cup here.

THE lingering rift between the management of Nigeria Petroleum Development Company, NPDC and workers of its contractors in OML30, over delay in the payment of salaries, has worsened as the workers are threatening to down tools.

Nigeria’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Dr. Umunna Orjiakor, yesterday, insisted that Nigeria does not owe Western countries any apology over her position on same sex marriage and death penalty, as it was within the rights of the country as a sovereign nation to follow what its people want.

Engineer Afolabi Yunus served as Commissioner for Works in Kwara state between 2003 and 2007 and was a key associate of the deceased strongman of Kwara politics, Senator Olusola Saraki. In this interview he responds to issues arising from the factionalisation of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and its effects in Kwara State. Excerpts:

THE Achalla community in Anambra State wore a new look recently, when eminent people from across the eastern states thronged the Awka North Local Government headquarters to celebrate this year’s Iwa-Ji, New Yam Festival.

IN order to shine the spotlight on the transformative power of girl-child education across Africa and the world, the ground-breaking feature, ‘Girl Rising’ was screened for the first time in Nigeria at the Silverbird Cinema, Victoria Island, Lagos recently.

LAST Wednesday, as has become his wont, during Sallah, Bukola Saraki, former KwaraState governor and Senator representing Kwara Central, gathered people in Ilorin to distribute money and pieces of cloths.

EDO State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, rejected the results of the chairmanship by-election in Esan North-East Local Government and six other wards in the state as announced by Chairman of the State Independent Electoral Commissioner, EDSIEC, Mr. Solomon Ogoh.

Even though they unaffected by the protracted strike embarked by public university lecturers, students of the University of Ilorin have appealed to both the Federal Government and the striking lecturers to consider the plights of students, and reach a truce that will end the three months strike.

The United States Consulate-General in Lagos, yesterday, announced that applicants for visa renewal can do so without an interview.

THE intra-party struggle over who gets the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ticket for the November 16 governorship election in Anambra State, took another twist yesterday as the Federal Court of Appeal in Port Harcourt reaffirmed Tony Nwoye as the party’s authentic candidate.

Jigawa State government, yesterday, said it has placed its health personnel on alert, to deal with any case of cholera outbreak in the state.