OWERRI—DISCORDANT tunes  yesterday heralded the declaration of results of Imo APC primaries with Kogi Police Commissioner, Ahmed Gulak  who presided over the panel that conducted the primary  declaring Senator  Hope Uzodinma as the APC gubernatorial candidate. But in a twist, the secretary of the panel  went ahead and declared Uche Nwosu, Okorocha’s in-law the winner of the primaries.

NNEWI—THE Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday said that the alleged lacklustre attitude and response by Nigerians towards the October 1 independence celebration has exposed Nigeria’s disunity and pretence by Nigerian leaders towards unity in the country.

MINISTER of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has spoken of the commitment of President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to job creation through bilateral  collaboration between Nigeria and the Republic of Korea in the area of technical and vocational education.

Notable Nigerians mostly from the academia, recently converged at the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile Ife, to celebrate the late 2nd Vice-Chancellor of the university, Professor Hezekiah Oluwasanmi who died about 25years ago for his outstanding contributions to the citadel of learning.Leading the pack of discussants at the  event was Nigeria’s  Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka who described Professor Oluwasanmi as a deep thinker of note whose legacies in the university would remain evergreen.

Labour Con-gress, NLC, has fixed its national delegates’ conference, NDC, for February 5, 6 and 7, 2019 in Abuja.

NO fewer than five persons, including a toddler, were feared dead last night in Akure, the Ondo State capital, after a tanker laden with 33,000 litres of fuel fell, and started a fire that razed eight vehicles, two buildings and shops.

The fake news many Nigerians publish on  social media is making  our undergraduates and graduates in the diaspora averse to returning  home to invest their wealth of knowledge in the economy according to Mrs Rose Omonubi, Director of Nubi Education Counselling Limited whose consultancy services  students desirous of studying in the  U.K., Canada, USA, Ireland, Netherlands, Dubai, Malaysia, China and Australia.While lamenting the brain drain in Nigeria, she believes there is nothing wrong  in  Nigerians  studying  abroad but  that it becomes painful when those who are supposed to  return  after their  studies are scared of  doing so due to fake news about our country on social media.

Solutions to the incessant herders/farmers clashes across the country will be the focus of discussion at the summit on conflict resolution in Abuja on Monday.

Former Deputy Inspector General of Police, Mr. Udom Ekpoudom, has called on the Nigeria Police to investigate the killing of three supporters of All Progressives Congress, APC, during the governorship primary of the party.

After the Osun State governorship election, Nigerians have moved on. It is needless, they will tell you, crying over spilt milk. You are told, if you insist on a modicum of decency in our national conduct, that there is nothing anybody can do about the mess or to those responsible for the muddle.

A senatorial aspirant for Anambra South, Chief Azuka Okwuosa yesterday accused the senator representing Anambra South, Senator Andy Uba of causing uncertainty in the political system, insisting that his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to APC was like introducing a kind of cancer in a system.

Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has said investments in telecoms sector now grow at about $5 billion every quarter.

The National Union of  Nigerian Students ,NUNS, has called on the Federal Government to implement the 26% budgetary requirement for  education approved by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, or risk being sanctioned.

AKWA Ibom State People’s Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday witnessed a peaceful conduct of the senatorial primary across the three senatorial districts of Uyo, Ikot Ekpene and Eket senatorial districts of the state.

THE National Executive Council, NEC, of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has mandated the leadership of the union to take all necessary actions to force the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, to inaugurate the board of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF.