Worried by the undue pressure being brought on the nation’s currency by the fragility of the economy, the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, has charged the country to rise up and employ science and technology as the suitable instrument to help to diversify and strengthen the economy.

STAFF and students of Community Secondary School, Opolo in Yenagoa Local Government Area, Bayelsa State were thrilled by the gesture of Dr Olivia Ayozie, a youth corps member, who donated 20 units of three seater desks to their institution as part of her community development efforts.

Some constituencies in Imo State, may remain without representatives in the State and National Assemblies, since the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, failed or neglected to implement the re-run polls ordered by the court within 90 days.

Three teenage armed robbers were yesterday arrested after robbing a man of his Toyota Venza number plate APP 7080 W at Umuopu Agu in Enugu Ezike, Igboeze North Local Government Area of Enugu State.

A security expert, Shola Mese has said only a sustained orientation of oil host communities on implications of the criminal activities of vandals in their domain will avert the unending attack and theft on oil and gas facilities as opposed to a military invasion and use of force of arms.

NO fewer than 5,000 indigenes of Ikot-Abasi Local Government Area, Akwa-Ibom State and its environs benefitted from the free surgical outreach programme organized by the Family Empowerment and Youths Reorientation Programme (FEYReP) in conjunction with the Pro-Health International and the Akwa-Ibom State Association of Nigeria (AKISAN USA incorporated).

The Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, (Nigerian Shiite) has dragged the Nigerian Army to the International Criminal Court of justice, ICC, over allegation of genocide.

TRADE Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, yesterday accused Kogi State government of planning to sack no fewer than 16,000 of the state public workers.
The union claimed government had set up a parallel six-man committee aside the committee handling the ongoing screening exercise, with a mandate of reducing the workforce at all cost.

With campaigns by politicians jostling to succeed Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State getting more frenzied by the day, delegates to elect the flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the September 10 governorship race in the state, have been advised to critically scrutinise the credentials of those who have indicated their intentions to govern the state.

The contention for the governorship ticket of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State narrowed, yesterday, after Senator Ehigie Uzamere announced his resignation from the party.

More than five hundred aggrieved members of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from Anambra East Council Area, kinsmen of Governor Willie Obiano, of Anambra State, have dumped their respective parties to join Equity Forum, EF, a political pressure group that agitates for equity, fairness, and good governance, formed by a former PDP Chairman and member, House of Representatives Prince Tony Nwoye.

THE excitement that greeted the resumption of work on the Yenagoa-Obogoro-Oporoma Road three years ago has given way to despair following the suspension of work on the project in the wake of the fall in the state allocation from the federation account.

THE Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, in Cross Rivers State and the State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, are at daggers drawn over the latter’s conduct of personnel audit of teachers in the state.

ABUJA— As part of the collective effort by the armed forces to expeditiously bring to an end the war against insurgency in the North-East, Nigerian Air Force Alpha jets last weekend successfully attacked suspected Boko Haram logistics base at Allagarno, killing one of the sect’s kingpins.

The Eastern Marine Command, EMC, of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Port Harcourt has impounded a vessel, MT African Beauty, for operating with expired documents (Temporary Importation, TI, permit) in Warri, Delta State.