HARCOURT—The tenure of the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led National Caretaker Committee of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP was extended by 12 months, yesterday, after security operatives stopped the party from proceeding with its convention in Port Harcourt. The convention was to produce a new leadership for the party.

ABUJA—The Federal Government yesterday said it would release N9.8 billion for polio vaccines and other related activities, even as it unveiled plans to immunise over 56 million children by November 2016.

Armed policemen yesterday, cordoned off the secretariat of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Ondo state as the crisis over the sack of the State Chairman, Mr Isaac Kekemeke deepened.

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Ado Ekiti—THE Catholic Bishops Conference of Ibadan Ecclesiastical province, has kicked against the alleged move by the Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, in collaboration with foreign organizations, to encourage abortion by increasing the culture of contraception among Nigerian women, describing it as an anti-life policy.