PORT HARCOURT — The people of Choba community in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, were stunned yesterday as the corpse of a resident earlier declared missing was discovered in Choba River by some fishermen.

A group of trained ex-militants have threatened to shut down the operation of Shell and its affiliates in 10 communities of the Niger Delta hosting Southern Swamp Associated Gas Solution Plus Project, SSAGS,if it failed within the shortest possible time to live up to its social corporate responsibility.

Operatives of the Department of State  Service, DSS, yesterday stormed Osogbo, the Osun State capital and other major towns in the state preparatory to the August 9 governorship election in the state, even as the Independent National Electoral Commission,  INEC, assured that the poll would be free and fair.

The Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Ado Ekiti, yesterday granted the prayers of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  and the governor-elect, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, to allow the party inspect all the electoral materials used for the June 21 governorship election in Ekiti State.

AHEAD of the 2015 general elections, a cleric, Rev. Chisom Ekwonna, says God has revealed Mr. Friday Nwosu to succeed Governor Theodore Orji as the next governor of the state and urged the PDP not to hesitate in nominating him for the position.

SADLY, the current doctors’ strike, like the series of strikes that preceded it, would not change anything. The reason is simple – it is not based on sustainable principles. Doctors want improvements on their welfare, not even facilities for their work.

WARRI — A man, said to be a pastor, and a woman are in Police net in Asaba, the Delta State capital for allegedly killing two children with a deadly substance sold by the pastor for N1,850.

The new Minister of National Planning Commission, NPC, Dr. Abubakar Sulaiman, has said he was determined to work hard towards providing Federal Government with accurate data on Boko Haram, Ebola Virus disease within and outside the country to actualise its ongoing transformation agenda.

By OLUFEMI AJASA Following an earlier report on how Nollywood Actor, Jim Iyke fled Liberia’s capital city, Monrovia over the spread of Ebola virus disease, (See : Jim Iyke flees Liberia) critics, via the social media have called on the health authorities to quarantine the actor whenever he returns to Nigeria. Jim who was in Liberia for […]

The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Andrew Pocock has reiterated that the British Government’s offer of assistance to Nigeria in the rescue of the abducted Chibok girls does not involve deploying troops in Nigeria to assume any combat roles.