A new Igbo socio-political group, the Igbo Ekunie Initiative, has emerged, with advice to President Muhammadu Buhari to engage self determination groups in Nigeria in a fruitful dialogue that would ultimately address their grievances and permanently end agitations in the country.

Apparently irked by what they called “the level of suffering in Imo State”, a group, Imo Nke Anyi Movement, INAM, yesterday, resolved that “men without integrity and pedigree will never govern the state again.”

Peoples Democratic Party PDP candidates in the three Warri Local Government Areas have expressed confidence of the party’s victory in the forthcoming election, noting that the level of turnout by the people of the councils during the flag off and campaign was indicative of the party’s supremacy in the Warri area.

Akwa Ibom State Police Command, yesterday, said it had beefed up security at the Ikot Ekpene Prisons, to avoid a re-occurrence of the recent jail break by inmates.

Ahead of 2019 general elections, Senator representing Cross River North Senatorial District, Dr Rose Oko, at the weekend, urged young women in the country to venture into politics without fear and intimidation.

THOUGH a tripartite National Minimum Wage Committee was inaugurated by the President Muhammadu Buhari on November 27, 2017, it is becoming obvious that Organised Labour and indeed, workers, are now restive over the protracted issue which has been a focal point of Labour agitation since 2015 when the current N18,000 minimum wage elapsed.

PRofessor Louis Egwari is the Chair of Centre for Biotechnology, Covenant University (CU), Ota, Ogun State. In this chat with Vanguard, the professor of microbiology speaks on his research works, saying researchers should focus on things that impact society. Excerpts: PATENTS:  “We have been on the Pawka (pawpaw) project for close to nine years. In […]

Ahead of Saturday’s council poll in Delta State, Sapele Area Police Command, yesterday in Sapele, convened a stakeholders’ meeting of the participating political parties and their candidates, declaring that the police would not tolerate any breach of peace or act contrary to electoral law.

CALABAR—The corpse of a young lady in her 20s was found yesterday, covered in a wrapper and abandoned by the roadside at Etta Agbor Layout in Calabar Municipal Local Government Area of Cross River State.

Former Speaker of old Ondo State House of Assembly, Chief Femi Akinyemi,  on Wednesday  dumped the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, for the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State.