DELTA State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, has said that residents in the state were reluctant to pay electricity bills and sometimes get hostile with the Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC, because of epileptic power supply.

A Taraba State socio-cultural group, the Taraba Peoples Assembly has condemned as wasteful spending, flamboyant celebration of Governor Dirus Dickson Ishaku’s 100 days in offices, warning the governor to stop showcasing achievements of previous administration as his projects.

WHEN on May 29, 2015, Senator Professor Benedict Benyaushuye Ayade was sworn-in as the 3rd Governor of Cross River from 1999, and the instrument of power and authority passed over to him at the prestigious Calabar International Convention Centre (CICC), venue of the inauguration ceremony, Ayade the ambitious young man from Obudu and first Governor from the northern senatorial district in his inaugural speech left no one in doubt that he was coming to government with the sole purpose of providing service and qualitative existence for the generality of the people of Cross River and other Nigerians living in the state.

Former Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on New Media, Reno Omokri on Tuesday made a case for Buhari over the president’s alleged lopsided appointments saying appointments should be made on merit and not sectional interests.

The Chairman, Djibouti Ports and Free Trade Zones Authority (DPFTZA), Mr. Aboubaker Omar Hadi, yesterday, lamented that the challenges of long transit time encountered by freight forwarders to trans-lift cargoes from Europe and Asia to Nigeria, as well as other African nations, was due to lack of adequate rail and air connections linking countries in the continent.