The National Youth Service Corps has ordered its personnel whose assets declaration dates are due to make such declaration immediately in line with the code of conduct for public officers.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has identified massive corruption and lack of coordination by Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), as bane of social intervention programmes by past administrations.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has approved the redeployment of nine Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) among whom is Mrs Gesila Khan, who was the REC in Rivers state.

A group, Youths for Democracy, has called on the Supreme Court to save the nation’s democracy by upturning the ruling of the Appeal Court on Taraba State, which returned Darius Ishaku as governor. The group in a statement by its President, Titus Gambo, said allowing that ruling to stand will be dangerous for the nation’s democracy just as it would send the wrong signal to politicians. He said the tribunal ruling which returned Hajia Aisha Alhassan of the All Progressive Congress (APC) as governor of the state should have been upheld, “as it was in tandem with the provisions of the law.

Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, Vice-Chancellor, Lagos State University (LASU), says the backlog of certificates in the institution will be resolved within four months.