For Nigeria to be digitally independent In software development and consumption, National Software board to help promote indigenous software developers must be created as a matter of urgent necessity , experts at the just concluded Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria , ISPON, national software competition ad conference held at the Tinapa, Cross Rivers State have said.

THE late Biafran warlord and Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu literally rose from the dead penultimate Monday at the Igbariam campus of Anambra State University, when the Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi announced the renaming of the institution to Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University. The renaming ceremony, which coincided with the marking of the 80th posthumous birthday anniversary of the late leader of the ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, attracted who-is-who in Igboland.

The fluid political climate in Taraba State deteriorated, yesterday, when members of the State House of Assembly ignored a state High Court injunction restraining them from clearing four persons nominated by the Acting Governor, Garba Umar, for appointment as commissioners.

THE Senator representing Rivers South-East senatorial district, Magnus Abe, has attributed Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s persecution in the current political dispensation to his resilience and doggedness in defense of Rivers State. 

THE Federal Government has been urged to stop the alleged plant cannibalisation and vandalisation of the Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria Limited, ALSCON, in Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State, by UC Rusal