Edo State Government has waded into the crisis between the Nigerian Army at Ekenwa barracks and their host community, Oghede, in Ovia North East Local Government Area of the state as tension mounts in the area, after hundreds of indigenes of the community were sacked from their ancestral homes by the Army.

Thompson and Grace Medical University of Nigeria, TGMU, may soon take off in Afaha-Obong, Akwa Ibom State, following the signing of Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, between the University of Hamburg, UKE, Germany and Thompson and Grace Investments Limited in Uyo, weekend.

Residents of some villages in Aggah community, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State have been displaced by flood.

The Amanyanabo of Nembe Kingdom in Bayelsa State, Dr. Edmund Daukoru, has blamed the recent upsurge in hate speeches across the country to the erosion of the patriotic ideals of the country’s founding fathers among the present generation.

Senator Francis Arthur Nzeribe, yesterday, said he was not suffering from a stroke. He made the statement through a release to newsmen in Owerri, by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Collins Ughalaa.