Dr. Isaiah Osifo, who served as chief of staff in the Oserheimen Osunbor administration, has called for the application of zoning in the determination of the APC governorship candidate as a way of bringing the needed political balance to the state.

THE five South-South governors elected on the platform of the PDP may have decided to take up Comrade Adams Oshiomhole on his claim that he would defeat all of them in their respective states in one on one popularity contests.

Imo State government has read the riot act to traditional rulers in the state against inciting media publications, following the expected election into the state council of traditional rulers in five months time.

Fresh hope rose last week for Nigerian Tuberculosis, TB, patients as the World Health organisation unveiled a novel rapid diagnostic test and a shorter, cheaper treatment regimen that would speed up detection and improve treatment outcomes for multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).

OLUASIRI- A meeting convened, penultimate Saturday, by the people of Olusari, Nembe Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, to jaw-jaw on the security challenges and other issues besetting the riverine community took another dimension when enraged villagers overthrew their monarch for supposedly ruling them outside their homeland and insensitivity to the predicament.

APC governorship aspirant Blessing Agbomhere has taken his bitterness against Comrade Adams Oshiomhole to new heights with a call on the national party to suspend the comrade governor for allegedly trying to impose an aspirant as the candidate.

The Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre, WARDC, has said that women smallholder farmers have constantly been sidelined in the various agricultural policies of successive governments.

After series of horse trading and compromises, the Board of Trustees, BoT, of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday agreed to the extension of the tenure of chairman of the Party, Senator Ali Modu, by two years.

THE Nigeria Labour Congress,NLC, and its affiliate body, Trade Union Congress,TUC, yesterday, vowed to press ahead with its industrial action scheduled to commence tomorrow if the Federal Government failed to revert to old pump price of petrol.

THE Federal Government has reiterated its commitment to ensuring improved power supply in Nigeria, as it plans to partner with ministries in other sectors of the economy. The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, who made this known at a public lecture, recently, said: “We are working round-the-clock within the ministry, and with other ministries like Solid Minerals, Water Resources and Ministry of Environment.