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.