Ms Onyeka Onwenu, the Director-General, National Centre for Women Development (NCWD), on Friday urged President Muhammadu Buhari and his wife, Aisha to be promoters and advocates of child rights.

The outgoing Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, yesterday decried lack of internal party democracy in Nigeria, regretting that the trend which encourage substitutions of candidates after primaries by political parties, created enormous burden for the Commission during the just concluded 2015 general elections.

AS Senators resume today from their two-week recess immediately after the formal inauguration, June 10, principal officers that will run the affairs of the red chambers would emerge today with both the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP caucuses producing their officers.

Deputy National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Engr. Segun Oni and the National Publicity secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed are currently jostling for a place in the cabinet of the president Muhammadu Buhari as ministers, Vanguard has learnt.

Indigenes in Rivers State under the aegis of Endangered Non Indigenes Forum in Rivers State (EINFRS) have cried out to President Muhammadu Buhari, pleading with him to come to their rescue, following the threat by Governor Nyesom Wike to crack down on them as part of his determination to deal ruthlessly with associates and loyalties of the immediate past Governor of the State, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.