An ex-officio member of the Caretaker Committee of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the South-West, Mr. Olalekan Abubakar, has warned the national leadership of the party against making the former Chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Chief Olabode George, the leader of the party in the zone.

ABAKALIKI— YOUTHS in Ebonyi State, weekend, began campaign for the senatorial ambition of Governor Martin Elechi in the 2015 general election, with a plea to all relevant stakeholders in the state to ensure its realisation.

Ogun State Government says it has commissioned a 4.5km Ere community rural electrification project in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government area of the state, abandoned 13 years ago.

A Nigerian drug dealer, Osuji Kelly Prince, who escaped from a detention facility in Malaysia on August 12, may have fled to Thailand, media reports from Malaysia said, yesterday.

UGHELLI— URHOBO youths, Monday, appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to prevail on the Governing Council of the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, FUPRE, Delta State, to appoint an Urhobo person as Vice Chancellor of the institution.

A 57-year-old security guard, Christopher Agbo, and two others were Monday arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate Court for allegedly stealing diesel worth N2,500, property of Servetex Company.

Coach of Nigeria’s senior male basketball team at the 2013 Afrobasket holding in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, Ayo Bakare has told his players not to underrate the Central Africa Republic but step up their game in Tuesday’s second round must win match to keep their ambition of lifting the trophy alive.

MAIDUGURI—LAST week reported massacre of 44 persons in Dumba village of Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State, displaced of over 4000 persons, National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, said Monday.

Apart from the injury worries for both the coaches and medical team of Team Nigeria at the on-going 2013 Afrobasket in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, their seems to be ‘enemies’ lying in wait for the Olumide Oyedeji/Ike Diogu co-captained team.

The wife of an Iranian-American pastor imprisoned in Iran said Monday she was “extremely disappointed” that US President Barack Obama had remained silent on the case.