THREE persons, were, yesterday, killed by suspected cultists in Ipoo community, Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State.

THE President of Niger Republic, Mahamadou Issoufou, has visited President Muhammadu Buhari in Daura.

As the World Health Organisation, WHO, marks Spinal Cord Injury Day, government at all levels in the country have been urged to deliver good roads for safe movement of spinal cord patients to hospitals.

INDIA is globally recognised as a shining example to all developing economies due to its giant strides in Information and Communications Technologies, ICTs. The country has grown to be the world’s largest sourcing destination for the Information and Communications Technology, ICT, industry, accounting for approximately 67 per cent of the $124-130 billion market.

WORRIED by high rate of unemployment and the potential of youths to grow the Nigerian economy, Microsoft in collaboration with the Future Project has introduced Accelerate Lab to equip 2,500 youths across the country with technology driven status required of them to build socially responsible enterprises.

An Anambra-based businessman, Dr. Richard Ndubuaku, has dragged the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and its leader, Nnamdi Kanu before the Federal High Court in Abuja, asking it to restrain them, their agents and members from making utterances or taking actions capable of jeopardising the conduct of election in the state.

The Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, has killed 381 civilians in Nigeria and Cameroon since the beginning of April, rights group, Amnesty International said yesterday in a statement.

FRESH fears have emerged on the threat of gully erosion at Oko, the home town of former vice president, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, as the construction company handling the project had moved out of the site due to poor funding.

ISOKO National Youth Assembly, INYA, yesterday, described the appointments into the board of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, as bastardisation of the country’s federal character principle.

Chairman, Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property, Mr Okoi Obono-Obla, said yesterday, that the Federal Government would soon take over Abuja empty houses and sell them.

Report of National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, indicated, yesterday, that all seem not to be well with the Information and Communications, ICT, sector, despite the economy exiting recession.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, said it plans to drastically reduce the impact of fraud on its revenue base by training 50 per cent of its workforce on the rudiments of fraud detection and examination.

EXPECTATION that Chief Osita Chidoka would reap from the former crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is facing serious challenges as party chieftains begin to rally around the party’s candidate, Oseloka Obaze.

Rivers State Government has commissioned and handed over the renovated Government Secondary School, Umuola in Etche Local Government Area of the state to the council and community leaders.

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