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A leadership crisis is brewing in Edo State All Progressives Congress, APC, as some party members have accused the state chairman of the party, Mr Anslem Ojezua, of alleged high handedness and insincerity in running the affairs of the party in the state.

ABUJA— THE Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mr Solomon Arase, yesterday, ordered the cancellation of all Police regulations that are discriminatory to women police officers just as he promised to fight all forms of gender-based violence in the country.

The meeting between Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC and Nembe communities in Bayelsa State, over the alleged sale of oil and gas reserves from the area without the involvement of indigenes of the communities, has been deadlocked.

Truth is, Aisha Buhari and Dolapo Osinbajo are generally liked by Nigerians not as much for the reasons listed above as for the following two. First of all, the immediate past First Ladies of the Federal Republic had provided an excellent foil for them. Patience Jonathan had been as garrulous as Amina Sambo had been lacklustre, showing an ability to engage her publicly in a positive manner only after office.

With a lot of people believing in reading today, the age old tale of hiding things in a book from a black man and him not finding it, no longer holds true as a lot of black people have now inculcated the habit of reading. Mrs. Victoria praise Abraham is one of those who seems to have come a long way through her writings. Believing in her abilities to impact the lives of many through her books, she has made it possible for even the younger generations.

COME away my brothers and sisters. Come away from those foreign cultures where men make a career of bachelorhood and women make a hobby of single parenthood. Where men are applauded, even by presidents for allegedly changing their sex, and pre-nuptial agreements ensure that marriage, where it occurs between a man and a woman, is no longer ‘Till-Death-Do-Us-Part’

Former Secretary to Bayelsa State Government, Prof. Steve Azaiki, yesterday, hailed the decision by President Muhammadu Buhari to withdraw soldiers from road blocks across the country.

Lagos—Students of the Lagos State University, LASU, yesterday, shut down vehicular and commercial activities along the Lagos-Badagry expressway, to protest the indefinite postponement of the institution’s 2014/2015 first semester examination, earlier scheduled to commence on July 6.

Ex-militant leaders in the Niger Delta region, yesterday, raised fresh alarm over alleged cases of disenchantment and threats to the existing peace accord by some aggrieved youths over the delay by the Federal Government to pay allowances and tuition fees to beneficiaries of the Amnesty deal within and outside the country.

Delta Ijaw Oil Producing Communities Youths Assembly, DIOPCYA, has called on Delta State House of Assembly to quash the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC Amendment Bill 2015, sponsored by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa.

Lagos—It is too early to say that the Yoruba have lost out from the All Progressives Congress, APC Federal Government they helped to enthrone, leaders of the Afenifere Renewal Group, ARG have said.

Shareholders have called on National Insurance Commission, NAICOM to stop some of the Nigerian insurance companies who are in the habit of seeking foreign loans rather than looking inward. The shareholders argued that incessant foreign loans by some of the insurance companies have negative impact on the balance sheet of companies and could jeopardise indigenous shareholders investments.

When African leaders endorsed the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) as a New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) program in July 2003, the overall goal was to “Help African countries reach a higher path of economic growth through agriculture- led development, which eliminates hunger, reduces poverty and food insecurity, and enables expansion of exports.”

Ibadan – AS part of its efforts to prevent future electoral defeat in Oyo State, some leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state have said one of the solutions is to refund the money that the party collected from aspirants since no primary was held to pick the party’s candidates for the last election.