WARRI—The Federal Government, yesterday, made progress in its mediation in volatile Ugborodo, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, as warring factions agreed to give the military unrestrained entry to keep peace and resettle residents displaced by the leadership crisis in the community.

FORMER Senate Chief Whip, Senator Roland Owie, has described the calls by Northern Elders Forum, NEF, on President Goodluck Jonathan not to contest the 2015 presidential election, as an insult to the South-South geo-political zone.

The Bauchi State government yesterday said rapid Ebola response centres had been established in the state as part of measures to forestall any outbreak of the virus in the state.

PORT HARCOURT— FORMER President, Students Union Government, University of Port Harcourt, Mr. Constantine Itiako, has emerged Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chairmanship candidate for the council elections in Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta State.

AHEAD of 2015, former speaker of ECOWAS Parliament, Chief Mao Ohuabunwa, has declared his intention to run for Abia North senatorial seat currently occupied by Senator Uche Chukwumereije.

EBONYI State government yesterday, flayed the state chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, over its call on the House of Assembly to impeach Governor Martin Elechi.

In its support to create employment and boost the financial inclusion initiative of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN in the country, the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers, CIS said it is targeting one million students to drive financial products by 2015.

SOME former Niger Delta ex-militants from Edo and Delta states, have petitioned President Goodluck Jonathan and the office of the Presidential Amnesty Committee, alleging that cronies of some political appointees who were not registered in the amnesty programme are benefitting from the exercise while the “real ex-militants” are allegedly excluded.

Ahead of the 2015 general elections, one of the President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign support groups, Friends of Goodluck, FOG, yesterday, called on the President to declare his intension to run for a second term in office.

One of the primary contacts of the late American-Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, who escaped quarantine on suspicion of having the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in Lagos, has been tracked to Enugu.

THE Chairman of the Board of Nigerian Communication Commission, NCC, Engr. Peter Igho, has ascribed poor quality service by GSM providers to multiple taxation, right of way and vandalism of facilities.

The British Navy and its Nigerian counterpart will build a synergy through information and experience sharing in order to strengthen their capacity to deal with insecurity and illegal activities within Nigeria, the West African coast and across the Gulf of Guinea.

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A DONATION of as many as 1,000 doses of an Ebola vaccine never tested in humans is raising questions among authorities about whether to give it to healthy people as officials try to control a raging outbreak in Western Africa.

THE more things change, the more they remain the same. Fourteen years into the 21st century, the self-acclaimed largest political party in Africa is still fixated on the crude techniques of dog-eat-dog that are purely reminiscent of the dirty politics of yester-years. How can it be said that during the Ekiti and Osun gubernatorial elections, prominent opposition politicians were picked up and dumped in the gulag, only to be released after voting hours? There is God ooooo!