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.