BARELY 24 hours after rejecting results of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senatorial primary in Lagos East Senatorial District, Senator Gbenga Ashafa, yesterday, conceded defeat to his rival, Mr. Bayo Osinowo.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, told a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, that it will be calling two more witnesses in the trial of a former Managing Director of Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, Ibrahim Abdusalami, and others over alleged N6.850billion fraud.

ELBE Pharma Nigeria Limited, recently presented the outcome of a successful clinical trial on Amatem Forte Softgel capsules, conducted at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Ikeja, Lagos.

OWERRI—FOR refusing to give Biafra warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu’s widow, Bianca Ojukwu, automoatic ticket for her senatorial ambition, the leaders of Biafra Independence Movement, BIM, and the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, have passed a vote of no confidence on All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA.

THE Babajide Sanwo-Olu Campaign Organization, BOSCO, has disassociated itself from what it called “concocted” programmes of the Lagos State All Progressives Congress, APC, Governorship Candidate, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu going across social media platforms, purportedly released by Director General in which Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu was been referred to as “The Governor”.

AFTER over six months blackout in some parts of Igbodo, Ika North East Local Government Area, Delta State, President of the Okowa Legacy Group and chairman of the Delta State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr Isioma Okobah has restored power supply to community.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has said that the President of the Senate, Mr Bukola Saraki cannot continue to preside over the APC-dominated Senate as a member of the minority Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) just as it siad that his defeat at PDP convention was a befitting end to greedy, untrustworthy, and double-dealing politician.

WARRI—RESIDENTS of riverine Ogodobiri community, Bomadi Local Government Area, Delta State, overrun by the ravaging flood in parts of the state were said to be sleeping in the ceiling of their houses and cooking their meals in their canoe because their homeland is under water.

AFTER the governorship primaries of the political parties, Taraba State is set for a showdown  among three political gladiators for the top seat.

ABUJA—VICE President Yemi Osinbajo has said  spending N1 trillion to bail out the poor in Nigerian annually is capable of making significant difference in the country’s economy.

ABUJA—The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, ordered the Federal Government to, within 30 days, extradite an alleged fugitive, Ayodeji Temitayo Fatumbi (a.k.a Paul Olawale), to the United States of America, USA, to face criminal trial over his alleged involvement in health care fraud.

NDUETONG- RESIDENTS of Nduetong, Oku Clan, Uyo Local Government, Akwa Ibom State, say they have been cut off for over decades from neigbouring communities by gully erosion.

FLOOD has overrun Our Saviour’s Hospital, the leading private sickbay in riverine Bomadi community, Bomadi Local Government Area in Delta State, forcing the management to evacuate patients on sick bed to Silver-Rays Hotel in the locality.

THE presidential standard-bearer of the African Action Congress, AAC, Mr. Omoleye Sowere, has described the Nigerian constitution as a fraudulent document imposed on the nation by the military.

ENUGU—Ohanaeze Ndigbo has said that it would not support any presidential candidate in any of the political parties who is opposed to the restructuring of the country.