Imm-ediate past Minister of Culture, Tourism and National Orientation, Chief Edem Duke, has declared his intention to run for the governorship of Cross River State in 2019 on the platform of All Progressives Congress, APC.

AWKA—STUDENTS of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, yesterday took to the streets ro protest the death of their colleagues due to what they described as neglect on the part of the management of the insitution’s medical center.

MEN of the Police Force have in the early hours of this morning besieged the residences of the President of the Senate and his deputy, Senators Bukola Saraki and Ike Ekweremadu respectively.

ENUGU—ENUGU State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, has repatriated 75 illegal immigrants arrested in parts of the state during the weekend.

Four persons, including a professor were, Sunday evening, killed by armed bandits along the volatile Abuja-Kaduna Highway.

ABUJA—THE National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, yesterday, expressed optimism that the party would reclaim power in Ekiti State in court.

The runner-up in Saturday’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary election in Osun state, Dr. Akin Ogunbiyi has called on the leadership of the party to declare him the party’s flag bearer in the state gubernatorial poll schedule for September 22, 2018.

Maiduguri—Borno State Police Commissioner, Damian Chukwu, yesterday, said a male suspected Boko Haram suicide bomber attacked a mosque, killing eight worshippers, including a Central Primary School Headmaster, in Goni Modu Lashibe Jummaa Mosque of Konduga Local Government Area, during morning prayers.

THE negative effect of money in elections is a source of concern in all genuine democracies. Though no election is possible without the funding of activities around it, unbridled deployment of money can derail its primary purpose, which is to ensure that the electorate cast their votes freely and that candidates who get the majority of votes will be declared winner.

The startling revelation of a 20-year-old self-confessed hit lady of the Eiye confraternity, on how she killed four members of a rival cult group in Ilasamaja, Mushin Local Government Area of Lagos, sent shivers down the spines of policemen and journalists at the Lagos State Police Command headquarters yesterday.