THE crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State following the decision by some leaders of the party to kick against the return of Chief Dan Orbih as state chairman of the party heightened, yesterday, with the leaders reiterating their opposition to his return.

A woman has reportedly abandoned her baby in a day-care centre located at Isawo road, Oke-Afa, Agric, Ikorodu, Lagos, for over three months.

THE intellectualisation of trite statements remains the stout tradition of the literate and the academia. But no amount of academic acrobatics and pedantic romanticisation can stop or prevent the chrysalis from carrying its own load-so mankind has borne its own self-inflicted tragedies and bestialities of war to an enormous extent.

WHEN I was Acting General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in 2011, we ordered workers’ strikes following disagreements on the implementation of the new Minimum Wage. Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola, Executive Governor of the State of Osun asked me for a discussion in Abuja.

The next time you come across a walnut hawker, buy a couple of wraps or more and eat. And whenver you are offerred some groundnuts, whether boiled or roasted, make sure you take some and eat.

Nigeria’s 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup-winning coach, Manu Garba, has again rallied behind the Golden Eaglets’ quest for a successful defence of their title at the forthcoming global cadet championship in Chile.

WARRI—THE branch national Chairman of Marine Equipment and Oil Suppliers, MEOS, an arm of National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, Mr. Best Ose, has said that the major aim of the body is to compliment the efforts of conventional security agencies in the maritime sector, especially in the oil and gas industry.

FAMOUS Nigerian sprints star Utitofon Nkantah, nee Ukoh MFR, has come out in praise of the grass roots athletics development programme that has been sustained by Mobil Producing Nigeria( MPN) in the past 15 years in Akwa Ibom State.

No fewer than 14 persons were weekend reported to have died in a ghastly road accident at Amasiri Secondary School junction along Afikpo-Okigwe federal highway in Ebonyi State.

BENIN—A member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, Mr. Jeff Ukhureigbe, has described the alleged ceding of the 2016 governorship ticket of the party to Edo South senatorial zone by the leadership of the party as undemocratic, illegal, unjustifiable and unconstitutional.

Wives of the 11 policemen, who have been in detention for the past 12 months at Cross River State Police Command headquarters have cried out to the Inspector General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, to release their husbands and save their families from pain and psychological trauma.

Detectives attached to Ewekoro Division of Ogun State Police command, have arrested one Adebola Titilayo, a nurse and owner of a private health facility at Arogun village, Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State, for allegedly stealing a-day-old baby boy after taking his delivery.

BENIN CITY—AS campaigns for the 2016 governorship election in Edo State intensifies, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state, Mr Mathew Emhiohe, has lamented what he described as the disunity among leaders of the APC in Edo Central senatorial district and appealed to Governor Adams Oshiomhole to find a solution to the problem so as to save the party from defeat next year.

Experts have always identified some of the major challenges facing the mortgage banking sector to include the lack of foreclosure laws governing the default mortgage loans, the entire cost associated with the task of title transfer, poor infrastructure to provide support for house constructions and highly complicated and lengthy legislative and legal frameworks for land acquisition.

The story went on to state the reason for the take over. According to the report by Everest Amaefule, “Following the declaration of force majeure by Integrated Energy Distribution and Marketing Company, the core investor in the Yola Electricity Distribution Company, the Federal Government has taken over the beleaguered power firm.”