Ahead the September 19, Bayelsa State governorship primaries of All Progressives Congress, APC, some delegates have reportedly gone into hiding following alleged threats by some chieftains of the party, who are fronting for a particular aspirant.

Yenagoa—A member of the House of Representatives, Douye Diri, weekend, dismissed claims that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Bayelsa State, was jittery over the gale of defections from the party. Douye, who represents Yenagoa/ Kolokuma/ Opokuma federal constituency, at an interactive session with newsmen in Yenagoa, insisted that the PDP will record a landslide victory in the December 5, governorship election

THE People of Perebiri quarters of Ogbe-Ijoh, Warri kingdom, Delta State, yesterday, petitioned the Inspector General of Police, IG, over alleged plans to disobey an order of court restraining the coronation of anyone as Pere of Ogbe-Ijoh, Warri Kingdom, before the November 19 date for further hearing in the suit in the matter before a Delta State High Court in sitting in Warri.

It took less than two months for Nigeria Breweries, NB Plc to break the record set by India in June 27, 2015, of the world’s largest billboard poster.

LAGOS—A social-wake was yesterday held at the Okota, Lagos residence, of Chief Basil Anekwe, father of the 300 level Accountancy student of the University of Lagos, Oluchi Anekwe, who was electrocuted last Tuesday while on her way to her on-campus apartment. This is just as the body of the deceased had been taken to her home town in Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area of Enugu, with preparation for burial in the pipelin

The threat, earlier this year, by the United States-based international banking mogul, J.P Morgan to phase out Nigeria from its Government Bond Index, for emerging markets (GBI-EM) was made good last Tuesday, 8th of September.

Nigeria’s Under-23 captain, Azubuike Okechukwu said they were amazed to find out that Nigeria has never won the All Africa Games soccer gold since 1970 when Nigeria hosted.

Dr. Ernest Azudialu Obiejesi is the chairman of Smile Communications in Nigeria and a major shareholder in the Smile Holdings Limited; comprising, Smile South Africa, Smile Dubai, Smile Tanzania, Smile Uganda and Smile DR Congo. In Nigeria, Smile, a broadband operator, is operating on the 800 GHZ spectrum with 4G LTE licence. Last week, Smile announced that it had raised US$ 365 million to fund expansion of its 4G LTE network in the country. In the conversation below, Obiejesi sheds more light on the expansion bid, the fund-raise, shareholding structure and more.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has concluded plans to hold a party reform conference in order to deliberate and consider the best workable reforms needed to reposition the party.

YENAGOA—Angry residents of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital, weekend confronted a four-man armed robbery gang along the upscale Oxbow Lake area for allegedly shooting a commercial tricycle operator and dispossessing his passengers of N3 million. The incident, it was learned, occurred at about noon on Saturday when the four-man gang attacked a tricycle and robbed a couple, Mr. and Mrs Eric Oyinodokoye, at gunpoint along the sparsely populated Oxbow Lake business area.