Mrs Enoghayin Ukponayusi Helen, a 45-year-old widow, was diagnosed with cancer and taken to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) for treatment. Although she hails from a poor background, she didn’t know her quest for cure was going to be tortuous. Prior to her ailment, the mother of four sold roasted plantain to take care of her four children following the death of her husband, a pensioner, in 2009.

BEFORE, it was the issue of extra-judicial killing or police brutality that was so rampant.

Operators in the rice and palm oil sectors of the economy have cried out that their investments and the Transformation Agenda of the Federal Government on palm revitalisation in the Agricultural sector are being threatened by imports allocation and duty waivers granted to some companies in the sectors.

WARRI Study Group, WSG, an influential Itsekiri group in Delta State, yesterday, insisted that President Goodluck Jonathan’s surprise visit to the Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse II, on Friday, would not stop Itsekiri and other ethnic nationalities in the Niger-Delta from voting against him if he did not perform the groundbreaking of the $16 billion Export Processing Zone, EPZ, Ogidigben, before next month’s presidential election.