ADO EKITI—THE embattled Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Hon. Adewale Omirin has said all the 19 All Progressives Congress, APC, lawmakers in the assembly have formally requested the intervention of the National Assembly over the face -off between them and the state governor, Mr Ayo Fayose.

ASABA—Governor Emmnuel Uduaghan of Delta State has urged members of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to engage in door to door campaign to ensure they garner all the votes in next month’s general elections.

The price of Brent crude oil has fallen below $50 a barrel for the first time since May 2009.

KOGI State Government says it has so far expended the sum of N1.64 billion in the upgrade of some of its primary schools.

LAGOS—GOVERNOR Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State, yesterday, presented the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state, Udom Emmanuel to Akwa-Ibom residents in Lagos State.

A plank market at Iyana Ishashi along the Badagry Expressway, Lagos State, was gutted by fire in the early hours of yesterday, destroying over N5 million cash, said to have been left in shops, and goods.

Akure—FORTY-SEVEN students, who allegedly injured three policemen and manhandled Ondo State government officials during a protest over alleged non-payment of their bursary allowance have been arrested and detained by the state Police Command.

National Institute of Training and Development (NITAD)has called on stakeholders in education sector to rise up on the security challenge bedevilling school pupils.

LAGOS — Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, has threatened Cameroon in a video message on YouTube, warning that the same fate would befall the country as neighbouring Nigeria.

LAGOS—As harmattan haze persists, Lagos State Government yesterday, urged residents to take precautionary measures as the state is to experience the dry dusty weather otherwise called harmattan for some time to come.

WARRI—fire killed a store attendant at the Pessu Industrial Estate wing of Pessu Market, Warri South Local Government Area, Delta State, yesterday.

Akure—A 56-year-old man, Oluwole Oloyede, has been arrested by the Police in Akure, Ondo State capital, for allegedly beating his wife, Morayo, to death over a disagreement.

DID you know that you only need red, green, and blue light to create a TV image? While Liquid Crystal Display TVs, LCDs, use color filters and light-blocking liquid crystals above a light-creating backlight and plasmas use Ultra Violet, UV, light created by igniting pockets of gas to excite red, green, and blue phosphors, Organic Light Emitting Diode, OLED, TVs work by putting electricity through certain materials that glow these specific colors. No other TV technology creates light directly like this. Make OLED pictures superior in quality.

Dr. Adeiga Adesina of the Nigeria Institute of Medical Research, Yaba, Lagos, has called for the empowerment of the population on health education and environmental management.

Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc has said that there is no certainty of a business combination with Afren Plc.