LAST week I discussed how issues of ethnicity and diversity have continued to plague Nigeria since independence. Prior to that I had detailed how the independence Constitution, following meticulous planning by the nation’s founding fathers, had addressed that same diversity and put in place a system of government that ensured that the regions making up the country thrived

OWERRI —The people of Umuasonye in Orji area of Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo State have protested the lack of electricity in the area in the last 10 years.

There is a vacuum of leadership in the South-east APC. I am a governor. My brothers Chris Ngige and Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu are ministers, hence the importance of Nnamani coming to the party at this time. I decline the leadership of Ndi-Igbo in APC. With Ken Nnamani, the question of who is the leader of APC in the South-east has been answered. Nnamani is the leader of APC in the South-east — Okorocha

IT was five years ago, yesterday, that former member of the House of Representatives and erstwhile commissioner of justice, Henry Seriake Dickson was sworn in as governor of Bayelsa State, with its moniker, Glory of All Lands. That date, February 14, 2012 has now come to signify Democracy Day for the people of Bayelsa State. The state commissioner for Information and Strategy, Jonathan Obuebite, in this interview spoke on the strides and struggles of the Dickson administration

GOVERNOR Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi were among over five thousand people who converged to pray for quick recovery of President Muhammadu Buhari and the country’s ailing economy.

— VICTIMS of last year’s military bombardment of Okosuegbene community, Delta State, have complained of acute shortage of food, shelter and medication since the incident.

The Federal Government in partnership with the European Union, UNICEF and the World Health Organisation, WHO, have signed a 70 million Euros European Development Fund support to scale up maternal and child health outcomes in Bauchi, Adamawa and Kebbi States and also to strengthen Health Systems in Anambra and Sokoto States respectively.

THE biometric system technology will be employed in the 2018 census by the National Population Commission, NPC, to capture the facial impression and fingerprints of persons.

Ryan Giggs has hailed Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s form since joining Manchester United in the summer.

No fewer than 171 Nigerians voluntarily returned from Libya yesterday aboard a chartered Nouvelair aircraft with registration number TS-1NB.