ASABA—DELTA State stalwart of People Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Richard Aduvie, has said Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s exploits in human and infrastructure development in the state would earn him a second tenure in the 2019 general election.

UYO—No fewer than 2,000 Police officers have been deployed to strategic locations in Akwa Ibom State to ensure a violence-free yuletide and New Year festivity in the state.

BENIN— EDO State Police Command has assured citizens of safety of life and property during the yuletide, just as it promised that peace and respect for law and order would be upheld in the run-up to the 2019 general elections.

AWKA—Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra has inaugurated new projects at Ogbunike Cave and Owerre Ezukala Water Falls, Orumba South Local Government Area.

ABUJA—Funds in Excess Crude Account, ECA, were spent on Super Tucano jets and other military equipment, Minister of Finance, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, has explained.

LAGOS—NATIONAL Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday, said though there are things upon which Nigerians can disagree and differ, but they must rise over these differences and treat one another with kindness and decency.

FORMER President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has said that Nigerians should take the responsibility if peace eludes the country.

An Abuja Federal High Court, presided over by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, has ordered an interim forfeiture of property traced to the immediate past chairman of National Social Insurance Trust Fund, Ngozi Olejeme.

A pan-Igbo socio-political pressure group, the South East Revival Group, SERG, has urged Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State to exercise restraint in their utterances as the country goes into general elections next year to avoid pitching their Yoruba ethnic group against the Igbo.

Undoubtedly, an effective supply chain reduces the direct cost of providing patient care, reduces counterfeit drugs and waste, and provides family planning choice as well as vaccines.

The State Team Lead of Alive and Thrive in Lagos, Dr Uche Ralph-Opara has called for more attention to the first 1,000 days of life of a child,saying that early initiation of breastfeeding was capable of addressing malnutrition.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA has burst a make shift warehouse inside  a forest in Uteh community, Ondo state,  where Cannabis are stored for onward distribution and  sales in other parts of the country.

ABUJA—Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, yesterday, described as false, claims by Budget Office that it failed to remit N1.34 trillion of its Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, to Consolidated Revenue Fund, CRF, domiciled in the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.

ABUJA—Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has said promises made by All Progressives Congress, APC, were aspirational, and not necessarily the reality.

ABUJA—Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, disclosed that under-recovery of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol, has dropped to N20 per litre from over N80 a couple of weeks ago