Two aides of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, Mr. Okoh Ezekiel Oghenetega and Mr. Ossai Success, Special Assistant on Students Affairs and Special Duties (Media), respectively, have awarded scholarship to the winner of 2017 Mr. Delta State University, Isodje Victor, in the beauty pageant organised by Delta State University and College of Education, Warri.

Wolves goalkeeper Carl Ikeme has thanked fans and colleagues for their “incredible” support since he was diagnosed with acute leukaemia in July.

THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has assured that Financial Technology (FinTech) companies will not take over the roles played by commercial banks in delivering services to customers.

APC aspirant, Dr. Tony Nwoye, has flayed last Sunday’s attack on St. Philip’s Catholic Church Ozubulu as a desecration of the sacred values that the people of the state are known for as he charged the church to sharpen its message on salvation.

GOVERNOR Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has expressed doubts over the report by some governors who paid a courtesy visit to the ailing President Muhammadu Buhari in London, saying the was excluded from the team because they knew he would certainly tell Nigerians the correct health status of the President.

The Nigeria Basketball Federation has assured that the list of D’Tigers’ players to be invited for the 2017 Afrobasket title defense will be released soon ahead of the tournament to be co-hosted by Tunisia and Senegal between 8th and 16th of September, 2017

THE Federal Government has commenced preparation for the 2018 budget with the training of budget officers in 800 ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) across the country.

It must be said that the most lofty and people friendly intervention of the 8th Senate has been its resolve to help uplift the economy through relevant legislations

I therefore recommend that, in respect of mining rents and royalties, there should be no distinction between on-shore and off-shore

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, rose from its expanded caucus meeting yesterday in Owerri, accusing Imo State Government of impoverishing the citizenry.

Leader of the Urhobo Ethnic Nationality and President-General of Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, Worldwide, led by Olorogun Moses Taiga, has charged Nigerian youths to rise up to the challenge of nation-building and resist being used for any purpose that is detrimental to national interest.

THE leadership of the Advance Peoples Democratic Alliance, APDA, in Ondo state, yesterday, led hundreds of their members to fuse into the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state.

YENAGOA—THE speed at which the Edepie-Imiringi road which links several communities in Ogbia Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, where crude oil was first discovered in commercial quantity and launched Nigeria into the club of petro-dollar country, is being eroded is now a source of grave concern to residents and motorists plying the route.

THE Benin Youth Congress, BYC, yesterday condemned what it described as a calculated attempt to tarnish the image of the acting Chief Medical Director, CMD, of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, UBTH, Dr Darlington Obaseki, in the ongoing exercise by the Federal Government to appoint a substantive CMD for the hospital.

AYAKOROMO—PLACARD- BRANDISHING activists and residents of Ayakoromo and Egbo-Ide communities in Burutu and Ughelli South Local Government Areas of Delta State, weekend, protested alleged abandonment of the N6 billion Egbo-Ide/Ayakoromo Bridge project by the State Government, vowing not to vote for Governor Ifeanyi Okowa in his second term bid, if he fails to complete the project.