PORT HARCOURT— Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has urged the Police to work smoothly with his government to effectively stamp out crime from the state.

In its quest to give world-class education to children from low income families in Africa, Bridge International Academies, BIA, an international private school, has built six academic locations at Ojo, Badagry, Igando, Ijegun, and Ikorodu, targeting children whose parents live below N400 per day.

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has described as demoralising, the erstwhile dichotomy between HND and B.Sc in the country.

THE expression ‘between Scylla and Charybdis’ came from the personification of two phenomenal hazards of navigation, both occurring off Italy’s narrow straits of Messina: one hazard named ‘Scylla’ was a ‘rock’ dangerously positioned against the ease of marine movement; the other named ‘Charybdis’ was a freak of perilous ‘whirlpool’ on the opposite side of Scylla and equally as threatening to sea-going vessels.

Imo State Government has scrapped annual leave for its workers, following the introduction of its controversial three-day working week policy.

ABUJA—THE discovery of a 1998 order of a Federal High Court, which stopped the Federal Government from nominating persons from non-oil producing areas in states as nominees of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, may have put an end to the present nomination of some persons for the commission by President Muhammadu Buhari.

PORT HARCOURT— Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has urged the Police to work smoothly with his government to effectively stamp out crime from the state.

Apparently, there is no end to the attempt by our lawmakers to infuse absurdity into our constitutional democracy.

ILORIN—The latest outbreak of violence between Share and Tsaragi communities in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State reportedly claimed the lives of five people on Tuesday, with the police arresting five people in connection with the incident.

When Muhammadu Bu-hari was sworn-in as the elected President of Nigeria on May 29, 2015, he made what many considered a heart-lifting speech.

To forestall the return of vandals and suspected militants in its waterline, Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, yesterday, vowed to ‘shut down’ some locations where they seem to be hibernating.

YENAGOA—The Bayelsa State Police Command has confirmed the interception of suspected child traffickers during routine stop-and-search operation on the East-West Road, rescuing 12 children.

BENIN—COMMERCIAL activities were, yesterday, brought to a standstill in Benin City, Edo State, following the strike action embarked upon by local government workers in the state over the non-payment of their salary arrears by the state government even as one of the protesting workers was said to have allegedly died in the process.

ABUJA— MEMBERS of the House of Representatives loyal to the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, are divided over moves to reconvene the House over alleged 2016 budget padding.

THE Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in Edo State, Mr Sam Olumekun, has disclosed that 3,000 persons have been de-registered in the state over multiple registration.