The Executive Director, Women Advocates Research and Documentation Center, WARDC, Dr Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, has urged Government at all levels to deploy resources in addressing maternal mortality and morbidity in the country.

Bauchi—Hundreds of armed thugs yesterday invaded the residence of the Publicity Secretary for Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the North East, Sani Alamin Muhammad, at Tirwun, along Maiduguri road and threatened to burn his house for supporting the endorsement of President Goodluck Jonathan.

President Goodluck Jonathan has been conferred with the ‘Grand Commander of ICT Promoters in Nigeria,’ for being Nigeria’s first digital President, at the just concluded 2014 Nigeria Information and Communication Technology, ICT, Centenary awards held recently.

A PEOPLES Democratic Party Governorship aspirant for Rivers State, Dr. Silva Opusunju, yesterday, outlined a seven point programme of action to reposition the state as a safe destination for habitation and re-industrialisation.

The Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has said that any Nigerian who voted for the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2015 general elections would be regarded as an enemy of the north.

FOR the second time, Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has indicated interest to contest the presidential election; the first being in 2006 after retiring as Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) president and joining partisan politics.

SHOCKED by the deplorable condition of federal roads in the South East, Chief Olisa Metuh-led Publicity and Evaluation Committee, has vowed to summon the Minister of Works, Mike Onolememen, for urgent intervention to save the people of the zone from avoidable road carnage.

African Broadcast professional organisations, engineers, intellectuals, broadcast equipment manufacturers, content providers, the academia ,broadcast marketing professionals and strategic industry stakeholders and broadcast partners across the globe will on Tuesday 21st to Thursday the 23rdOctober, 2014 converge in Abuja to brainstorm on the Digital Switchover, DSO.

Lagos—An unemployed man, Pius Ogbonna, 35, and his lover, Ijeoma Odoka, 30, were yesterday arraigned before an Ebute-Metta Chief Magistrate’s Court, sitting at Oyingbo, for allegedly kidnapping a six-year-old boy, Jeremiah Agbase.

FEDERAL Government of Nigeria is expected to pay back the $1 billion loan to be collected for the purchase of security gadgets to combat Boko Haram in seven years. This was revealed on the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday.