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.