THE Senate President, Senator David Mark has promised to intervene in the six months old industrial dispute between the Benue State government and striking lecturers of state-owned tertiary institutions.

Thirty-three automobile mechanics were presented with modern diagnostic tools in Enugu last Friday after undergoing a three-week training aimed at closing the skills gap in modern vehicle repairs.

MINISTER of State for Education, Professor Viola Onwuliri, has called on the management of the nation’s universities to incorporate the National Health Act 2014 in medical training.

Worried by the incessant attacks and intimidation on political office seekers on the platform of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in Zamfara State, the governorship candidate of the party, Alhaji Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi has described the situation as barbaric, inhuman and ruthless.

OWERRI — The four-year battle for the chairmanship stool of Imo State Council of Traditional Rulers, has finally been settled, following the sacking of the Governor Rochas Okorocha appointed Eze Samuel Agunwa Ohiri, by the Supreme Court,

ABUJA — Six Presidential candidates and 16 political parties, yesterday, called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to postpone the February 14 presidential and national assembly elections to either March or April this year to allow the electorate collect their Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs.

A Federal High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State, may commit the Chairman of Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attaihuru Jega, to prison for failure to restore the Ughelli South 1 and Isoko North 1 constituencies as ordered by the court.

ABEOKUTA—The Ogun State governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Gboyega Nasir Isiaka yesterday said the February 28, election will determine the future of the state and urged the electorates to vote for the best candidate.

LAGOS—A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered alternative service of the disqualification claim on General Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC, by publication in a national newspaper.

LAGOS—THE Director of Legal Affairs of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential Campaign, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode, has affirmed his readiness to defend the eligibility of its presidential candidate, Dr Goodluck Jonathan to contest the February 14 presidential election.

THE National Association of Itsekiri Graduates, NAIG, has warned that it “will be more disastrous to postpone the February 2015 polls,” than to go ahead with same, calling on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to redouble its efforts in the distribution of permanent voter cards, PVCs, especially in the coastal communities.

Ilorin—The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP governorship candidate in Kwara, Sen. Simeon Ajibola, has challenged Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed to a live radio and television debate over performance claims.

Lagos—The Civil Liberties Organisation, CLO has warned politicians, political parties and their supporters against statements and actions capable of truncating the nation’s democracy.

The human spine is like a ladder made up of 24 steps, called vertebrae, stacked on top of one another to create the spinal column. This ladder gives the body its form, our main upright support.

Akure—THE supremacy battle between two rival cult groups has claimed the life of a middle-aged man, identified as Bolaji, at a birthday party in Ondo town, Ondo State, while many others were injured.