LAGOS — The ambition of High Chief Raymond Dokpesi for the chairmanship position of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has got a major boost as Kogi, Nasarawa and Benue states chapters have vowed to work for his success at the National Convention billed for August 17 in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

Ibadan—Academic and administrative activities were paralysed at the University of Ibadan as the Non-academic staff unions of the institution began a warning strike.

Nurses at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi-Araba yesterday suspended its protracted strike which resulted to the discharge of all patients in the tertiary hospital.

ABUJA — The Presidency has vehemently refuted reports by London Telegraph that children were faced with death by starvation in northern Nigeria, saying such reports were injurious to the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chief Chris Ngige, yesterday, in Enugu, flayed the Gen. Abudulsalami Abubakar regime that jettisoned the National Constitutional Conference crafted under late Gen. Sani Abacha which provided for rotational presidency, arguing that it would have quelled the strident agitation for Biafra Republic by different separatist groups in the south-east geopolitical zone.

FRANCIS Cardinal Arinze has charged corporate organisations and individuals to work with the Church on education to restore societal values.

ABUJA—FORMER Chief Whip of the Senate and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Rowland Owie, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to be grateful to God for making it possible for him to be the president of the country, rather than going back to the past on how he was toppled in 1985.

Abuja—The Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), yesterday, decried the rising spate of attack by herdsmen on farming communities across the country. It also called on the Federal Government to take decisive actions to disarm the herdsmen, so as to stem the killings of harmless farmers.

ABUJA —President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that his administration would not go against the decision of the International Court of Justice, ICJ, on the Nigeria-Cameroon border.

Dangote Sugar Refinery, DSR, has announced a profit before tax, PBT, of N11.1 billion for the six months ended June 30 , 2016.

ABUJA— A gale of resignation has hit the Department of State Services, DSS, in recent times, forcing the management of the service to temporarily place a moratorium on further voluntary resignation from personnel of the service.

The over 100 billion daily active users on Facebook, twitter, WeChat, Skype and Telegram can now experience the ease of performing their financial transactions directly from these platforms with the aid of the recently introduced solution, ChatPay.

ABUJA— President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, said the Federal Government would provide 180,000 cost-effective and affordable housing for various categories of workers in the federal civil service by 2019.

A four-man robbery gang, yesterday, shot a Police Inspector dead while he was withdrawing money from an Automated Teller Machine, ATM, in Idimu area of Lagos.

A 27-year-old woman, who was arrested while dumping her three-week-old baby close to a filling station in Festac, Amuwo-Odifin Local Government Area of Lagos State, has blamed her action on inability to fend for her child.