Former vice president and PDP presidential hopeful, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has enjoined the PDP South West delegates  to make a better choice by supporting his candidature in the forthcoming PDP primary elections.

IJAW Youths Council, IYC, yesterday, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to forward a supplementary budget to the National Assembly for the inclusion of funds slashed by lawmakers from his earlier allocation for completion of East-West Road and take-off grant for Nigerian Maritime University, NMU, Okerenkoko, Delta State, in the 2018 budget.

Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has again raised the alarm that the flag bearer of All Progressive Congress (APC), John Kayode Fayemi has hired four top officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from the headquarters in Abuja, to manipulate the July 14 poll to favour the APC.

TRAUMATISED butchers at the Bodija International Market, who lost three of their colleagues in the melee that erupted between them and policemen over the forceful relocation of their abbatoir to Amosun village in Akinyele Local Government by Oyo State government, have alleged that brazen disobedience to a court order by the government triggered the bloody violence.

NIGERIANS, recently, lamented the way their darling, Super Eagles, crashed out of the on-going World Cup in Russia. Nonetheless, the well known Nigeria penchant, for always daring to stand out, at any cost, may have been embellished, by last week’s announcement that Nigeria, has overtaken India, as Number One, in the World’s Poverty Ratings. In other words, Nigeria is presently populated by, not just a very large number of indigent citizens, but, out of Nigeria’s estimated total 170 million people, alarmingly, close to 50%      are deemed to be extremely poor.

MINNA—FOR the second time in seven months, former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar yesterday paid a private visit to former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (retd)  at his Hill-top residence Minna, Niger State.

There is still so much hunger, unemployment, poor power supply and insecurity linked to insurgency, herdsmen’s attacks and criminal banditry. A large number of people who operate in the agricultural sector has been displaced and the law-enforcement agents appear unable to cope.

​Ahead of the primary elections, an Isoko group, Isoko Political Revolutionary Force (IPRF) has thrown its weight behind the candidat​​ure of ex-Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan for the Delta South Senatorial district.

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has cautioned residents of the state against indiscriminate waste disposal, calling on stakeholders to join in government’s efforts to rid the state of waste, especially during the rainy season.

Policemen attached to Force Criminal and Intelligence Department, FCIID, Alagbon, Lagos, are working hard to unravel the death of a retired Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP, Joseph Idehen.