The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC, has raised an alarm over the increasing rate of vandalism of its installations in the five states of the South East zone, saying the development was adversely affecting the company’s efforts to ensure steady power supply.

Residents of Otovwodo (Agbassa) community, headquarters of Agbarha Kingdom Warri, Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, have protested what they alleged was an imposition of an Itsekiri Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate from Ugbolokposo community in Uvwie Local Government Area, on them in the just concluded council primaries of the party.

A group, Human Rights Writers Association, HURIWA, yesterday, implored the acting Inspector General of Police Mr. Suleiman Abba, to urgently order the closure of illegal police checkpoints currently in operation in the South East region of the country.

TRADITIONAL rulers from Efut nation in Cross River State have described as sacrilege, the locking up of the palace of the Muri Munene of Efut nation and their denial of access to their deity for about three years by the state government.

FORMER Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Rowland Owie, yesterday, called on President Goodluck Jonathan to order air strikes and land invasion of the Sambisa forest, saying that the seeming delay in invading the den of the dreaded Boko Haram sect, was giving them more time to re-group.