GOVERNOR of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has urged the country’s security agencies to work together to check the security challenges confronting the country.

Let nobody ever say that President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is not a listening leader. Never say that. From the early days when he assumed the presidency to the present, President Jonathan has been the epitome of democracy, feeling the pulse of the people and dancing the waltz to their tempo. He did this when he changed his mind about withdrawing Nigeria from international soccer tournaments after the 2010 fiasco in South Africa after Nigerians besieged his facebook page to plead with him to temper justice with mercy. Again he did this when he acceded to the cries of those most affected by the Boko Haram insurgency when he agreed to consider dialoguing with Boko Haram and set up the Tanimu Turaki led Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Resolution of Security Challenges in the North.

SECOND Republic Senator and renowned accountant, Chief David Dafinone, has mounted the soap box in Sapele, Delta State, to campaign for his second son, Chief Ede Dafinone, who is the Democratic Party, DPP, flag bearer for the October 12 senatorial bye election in Delta Central.

UNTIL he decamped from the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, last year, Chief Julius Ogboru, the Ekugbere of Abraka Kingdom and elder brother of Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru, DPP governorship candidate in the last election, was popularly known as the ‘Field Marshal’ of the Ogboru Campaign Organization.

Officials of Lagos State Environment and Special Offences Enforcement Unit have confiscated dozens of rams on display for sale in a prohibited area of the state.