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.