The Special Adviser to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State on Rural Development and Peace Building, Mr. Emmanuel Ogidi, has said that Nigerians must brace up for hard times except the Federal Government removes subsidy and focuses on other sources of energy and the non-oil sector.

Without any doubt, this is the season for sharing. Hampers, boxes and shiny wrapping papers are now more relevant than at any other time of the year. But even good things come with their own attendant challenges: What if you buy a present someone doesn’t like? What if you never get the chance to get the present across?

OGUN State Police command has arrested no fewer than 1,353 suspects for various crimes which include robbery, kidnapping, rape and cultism across the state in the last six months.

The wife of Osun State governor, Mrs Sherifat Aregbesola, has predicted a brighter future for the state in spite of the current economic challenges.

AN interest group, Peter Esele Solidarity Committee, PESOC, has allayed the fears of governorship aspirants on the platform of All Progressives Congress, APC, that Governor Adams Oshiomhole will impose a candidate on the party, saying that based on the political consciousness in the country, the governor would not condescend to that level.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Bayelsa State, has said that all those who caused the violence which led to wanton loss of lives and destruction of property during the cancelled election in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area and other parts of the state will have to allow due process take its course as those found wanting would face the full weight of the law.

The All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Abia State chapter, has accused its Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, counterpart of blackmail by faulting the composition of the Abia governorship Appeal Panel sitting in Owerri, Imo state.

Edo State Government has repealed the Act establishing the state’s Customary Court of Appeal that had hitherto existed alongside the state High Courts.

MRS. Gold Ereumunna, a traditional birth attendant in Aba, Abia State, has cried out to the Inspector General of Police, IG, Mr. Solomon Aresa to save her from annual molestation and raiding of her home by policemen in Abia.

Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has ordered a probe into the death of 11 Ebonyi youths in a auto accident at Ezzangbo on their way to the Court of Appeal, in the nearby Enugu State.