Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson, yesterday, urged Bayelsans to keep faith with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, by voting massively for the party in the state House of Assembly polls.

One of the issues President Goodluck Jonathan campaigned with for his botched re-election, penultimate Saturday, is the implementation of the 633 recommendations of the 2014 National Conference.

Super Eagles midfielder, Ogenyi Onazi has argued that the endless drama at the Nigeria Football Federation concerning administration and technical matters was disrupting the progresses of the national team.

Kenya said Saturday it had arrested five men in connection with the university massacre by Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab militants that left nearly 150 people dead.

As I argued sometime ago, democratic governance is a team effort, not a one-man show. Thus, no matter how disciplined or incorruptible a politician might seem to a certain segment of the population, he or she cannot make solid positive impact if the political structure is as skewed as what we have presently – indeed, it is the single most profound cause of our arrested development. So, expeditious restructuring of the Nigerian federation such that more political and fiscal powers are devolved to the six geopolitical zones is the most urgent political task at this period in our national development.

A socio-political organization, the Akwa Ibom Amalgamated Political Action Committee (AAPAC), has advised Akwa Ibom people to vote for the PDP candidate, Udom Gabriel Emmanuel in the April 11 governorship election. According to its spokesman, Barrister Andem Andem, Emmanuel represents the real face of change.

ILAJE Local Government Area of Ondo State, with its headquarters in Igbokoda, is a riverine area. Chevron Plc recently embarked on the “Prevention of Malaria in Pregnancy Project” in the local government.

He may have retired from active politics but the name of Barr.Eddy Osifo rings a bell in the politics of the old Bendel State which comprised of the current Delta and Edo states. He was a close ally of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, as one can see in his membership of the Action Group of the First Republic and later Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN, of the Second Republic. He was the godfather of the late Ambrose Ali whose governorship he facilitated in the then Bendel State under the UPN in 1979.

ABUJA – The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and National Christian Elders Forum (NCEF), yesterday, congratulated the President-Elect and presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) on his election.

Enyimba Football Club of Aba will be guests to Smouha SC at the Egyptian port city of Alexandria in the in the second leg, first round of the CAF Champions League. Smouha is a relatively unknown club in the continent’s premier club competition.