Prominent indigenes of Okpara community in Rivers State are saddened over what they described as a most disturbing development in their community.

It was jubilation galore at Mbosi community in Ihiala Local Government Area, Anambra State, weekend, when peace allegedly returned to the area sequel to the emergence of Prince Okey-Joe Onuakalusi as regent of the community.

Minister of State for Power, Mohammed Wakil has asked the authorities to post security guards for female girls’ colleges and hospitals especially in the North-East zone of the country.

THE habit of open urination and defecation by members of the public is one of the unhygienic acts that could jeopardise the government’s vision of transforming Lagos State into a tourist haven.

Abia State Police Command has charged four suspects to court for raping an 18-year-old girl, identified as Chikodi Ogbonna.

The Fayose Campaign has dismissed insinuations by the APC that Vice President Namadi Sambo claimed that the Ekiti and Osun gubernatorial elections would be prosecuted like a war.

A former aide of Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State, Ben Onyechere, has said campaign of calumny launched against the governor by his opponents has not deterred him from laying the necessary foundation for development of the state.

I expect the next Governor of Ebonyi state to be a patriot; somebody who will have the interest of Ebonyi people and the country at large at heart in all sincerity. Somebody who will come after the model of the present governor, Martin Elechi. Somebody who will have development as his core value in transforming the lives of the people of Ebonyi State. Somebody who will want to cater for the welfare of Ebonyi State and keep up with the pace of development and rapid transformation which is ongoing in the state in various sectors.

THE Onijan of Ijan Ekiti, Oba Samuel Fadahunsi, has said the Ekiti State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate, for the June 21 election, Mr. Ayo Fayose, has no hand in the death of late Dr. Ayo Daramola, an indigene of the town, who was assassinated in August, 2006.

Promoters of the oil firms that have submitted bids for the four oil blocks, from which oil giant Shell is divesting its holdings, have come under the searchlight of global anti- graft institutions and foreign governments.

Marginal fields’ operators are yet to make significant impact on Nigeria’s crude oil production, as they accounted for 2.26 per cent of Nigeria’s total crude production in December 2013, dropping by 12.53 per cent from November’s crude production.

THE Federal Government weekend began the reconstruction of a bridge along Onwe Road, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State capital to avert incidence of flooding, which had over the years ravaged communities within the locality.

FROM Friday, the Lagos State government will start imposing heavy sanctions on owners of masts that are either sub-standard or not captured in its database.

The grant-in-aids scheme to Community Development Associations in the state is undoubtedly one of the legacies of the incumbent governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi.

THE Kogi State Governor, Captain Idris Wada has appealed to the Federal Government to refund to the state, the sum of N14billion allegedly spent on Federal roads in the area.