FOLLOWING Saturday suspension of 10 months old strike by Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, its President, Dr Chibuzor Asomugha, yesterday urged members to double their effort to recover lost time and lessen the pains students and their parents suffered as a result of the strike.

ABEOKUTA—INDICATIONS emerged at the weekend that10 members of Ogun State House of Assembly have defected to the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, from the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC.

Yenagoa—A Niger Delta advocacy group, Association of Youths for Non-Violence, has declared as “provocative and beggarly,” the proposed derivation principle of 18 per cent to oil producing states and five per cent to Northern states affected by Boko Haram insurgency.

A lot of concern has been raised about the current debt profile of the Federal Ministry of Aviation . The Senate Committee on Aviation first blew the whistle that the ministry has incurred so far about N174 billion in the current remodeling of the airports across the country.

Dr. Ope Banwo is the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of Afrinet Business Solutions, an outfit that provides internet business solutions to businesses in Africa and non-African companies doing or seeking to do business in Africa using the power of the internet.

ABUJA—THE Minister of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, Dr. Steve Oru, has promised to pursue the mandate of the ministry as he assumes office.

Asaba—PUBLISHER of Vanguard Newspapers, Mr. Sam Amuka, was among prominent Nigerians who bagged the Entrepreneurship Award at the memorial anniversary celebration of the passage of Mama Angelina Azinge, in Asaba, Delta State, weekend.

By SIMONEBEGBULEM BENIN—A leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and former Chairman of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas workers, NUPENG in Edo State, Mr. Johnbull Asemota and the current Chairman of the union, Mr. Osahon Osamuyi, have joined the All Progressives Congress, APC, at a rally in Benin City, weekend. Also, […]

“In any case what does one expect from a party that has no message and agenda for the people; a party based on religious and ethnic interests and which has absolutely nothing to offer in the furtherance of the national interest”, the PDP said.

The APC has accused INEC of collaborating with the PDP to execute a sinister plan to manipulate the electoral process from source, in order to rig the votes on August 9.

The APC flag bearer, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has flayed his PDP rival of campaigning on a platform of lies and challenged him to project what he would differently from the incumbent.

THE Omisore Campaign Organisation has accused the All Progressives Congress, APC administration in the state, of planning to arm cadets of the OYES scheme as fake policemen to be deployed in rigging the election.

A quintessential public servant, those who know him quite intimately, see him as an exemplar in accountable governance, selflessness and unalloyed uprightness whose only “weakness” is his implacable commitment to public good, no matter whose ox is gored!

WHEN the former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, took on a generation of Yoruba Obas, and called them – of all things – worthless, he must have thought little of the consequences of his statement. Tinubu’s statement at the 80th birthday of the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, was not the first time the leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) would denigrate leaders and institutions of the Yoruba race.

The Nigerian Army has denied the diversion of $43m meant for the settlement of officers and men on peace-keeping missions by some army generals.