The Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM) weekend adopted the PDP candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, as its candidate for the election.

The PDP has accused Governor Adams Oshiomhole of denying it the use of the Ogbe Stadium for today’s campaign flag-off saying the denial has worked for the party’s good in leading it to flag off from the House of God.

Commandant-General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Abdullahi Gana Muhammadu, has an-nounced the deployment of 40,000 officers and men of the agency for Eid-il-Fitr celebrations.

The Enugu State chapter of the All Progressive Congress, APC, yesterday berated the Deputy Senate President, Chief Ike Ekweremadu for writing the international community over the alleged forgery trial against him and other members of the Senate.

CRISIS has broken out over the adoption of former APC aspirant, Don Pedro Obaseki as the candidate of Accord as the state chapter of the party yesterday disowned the “national officers” who enthroned Obaseki as the party’s candidate.

A certain Prince Ovivare, who allegedly defiled a neighbour’s four-year-old son (names withheld), is being investigated by officers at the Aguda Divisional Police Station, Lagos State.

Oando Plc, Nigeria’s leading indigenous energy group listed on both the Nigerian and Johannesburg Stock Exchange, yesterday announced unaudited results for the three months period ended 31 March, 2016, with profit after tax standing at N4.1 billion.

THE Pere of Isaba Kingdom, Warri South West Local Government Area, Delta State, HRM Donokoromo II, has promised that his people wili never go to war with the people of Aladja community in Udu Local Government Area of the state, no matter the provocation, insisting that they were brothers and will remain brothers

The management of National Insurance Commission, NAICOM, and its staff, under the aegis of Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Service Employees, AUPCTRE, are at daggers drawn over alleged non-implementation of the 14-point agreement months after the intervention of the Ministry of Finance. Vanguard investigations revealed in Abuja, yesterday, that negotiations between the union and the management hit the rock over the delay by the insurance regulator to treat the contending issues agreed upon by both parties with the attention they deserved.

The Nigeria Football Federation will on Friday, 8th July release a short-list of candidates for the vacant position of Super Eagles’ Head Coach.

Nigeria’s U20 squad, the Flying Eagles, will depart the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja aboard an Ethiopian Airways flight on Wednesday, 6th July on their way to Khartoum for a 2017 Africa U20 Cup of Nations qualifying match against their Sudanese counterparts.

The Radiographers Registration Board of Nigeria (RRBN), an agency of the Federal Government, has arrested some fake Radiographers and sealed the X-Ray units of some hospitals in Imo State.

It came as a great shock to learn that 102 years after the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern protectorate to form Nigeria as by the former British colonial masters and 56 years after her independence, one of the 774 local government areas in Nigeria does not have a secondary school.

Nigeria caretaker coach Salisu Yusuf has applied for the Super Eagles top post because he believes he can qualify the country to the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State, yesterday declared that his administration received only N345 million cash as donations from outside interests contrary to allegations of a windfall of billions supposedly channelled to help victims of the Boko Haram insurgency.