Since the return to civil rule in 1999 the PDP has been the dominant party in the predominantly riverine state. It was the contention of analysts that if the 1999 election had held simultaneously in the state like the rest of the country, the APP candidate, Chief Francis Doukpola would have won the poll given the latter’s popularity. But the Kaiama declaration and its attendant youth restiveness led to the postponement of election, a development that worked in favour of the PDP.

Following the three-week long protests embarked upon by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, over continued incarceration of their leader, Nnamdi Kanu which led to the alleged killing of its members by members of Joint Military Task Force, markets, banks and schools in Onitsha and its environs remained closed, yesterday, in apparent solidarity with the protesters.

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, yesterday, expressed confidence that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will take its pride of place in the nation’s polity with the strengthening of its internal democracy.

Tension heightened, yesterday, between members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, following the killing of Diseye Dickson, the deputy ward chairman of APC, Ward 1 in Odi, Kolokuma-Opokuma Local Government Area of the state by gunmen.

A middle-aged man, Pius Asomba, suspected to be the leader of a notorious syndicate that specialized in dispossessing businessmen of large sums of money through fake bank alerts, has been arrested by the police in Lagos.

All eyes are on today’s pronouncement of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on the outcome of penultimate Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi State. How the court rules would determine whether or not tomorrow’s scheduled supplementary election to conclude the November 21 governorship election go ahead.

THE Senate, yesterday, asked President Muhammadu Buhari to as a matter of urgency reintroduce toll gates on the nation’s highways to create a financial pool through which bad roads could be maintained and rehabilitated.

LAGBUS Asset Management Company, operators of Lagos Metropolitan Red Buses, yesterday said it had arrested eight of the company’s staff for allegedly issuing fake tickets to commuters.

The first ever global estimates of food-borne diseases carried out by the World Health Organisation, WHO, has revealed that not less than 420,000 people died yearly from eating contaminated food.

A Mararaba Grade 1 Area Court, Aso Pada, Nasarawa State, yesterday, dissolved the 29-year-old marriage between a nurse, Laraba Thomas, and her husband, Ali Thomas, over his drunkenness.