DELTA State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has said his re-election will be premised on sustenance of peace, development and equity in line with rotation of political offices in the state.

The Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to announce a new Inspector General of Police, IGP, following what it called the end of the tenure of IGP Ibrahim Idris who has clocked the statutory 35 years in active service.

Spanish La Liga table after Sunday’s second match (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points):

Premier League champions Manchester City began their FA Cup campaign with a 7-0 thrashing of Rotherham on Sunday but Fulham, battling to avoid relegation from English football’s top-flight, were beaten 2-1 by fourth-tier Oldham.

AS the intrigues over who becomes the next governor of Ogun state continue, President Muhammadu Buhari, Sunday met behind closed doors with Governor Ibikunle Amosun and the Ogun State governorship candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), Adekunle Akinlade, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Military and community sources in Bayelsa have described some media reports of militants’ attack on an oil pipeline in Koluama 1, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state as “fake news.”

A group, the Accord Women and Youth Initiative has condemned the appointment of Amina Zakari, a National Commissioner with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as chairperson, National Collation Centre for the presidential election result.

West Africa’s leading carrier, Air Peace has said it will begin non-stop flights from Lagos to Banjul, The Gambia from Monday, January 7.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of constituting a big threat to the conduct of credible elections in 2019 even as it called on the National Peace Committee led by former military Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd) and the United Nations, UN, to call the first citizen to order.

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that 2019 General Elections will be used by Rivers people to put an end to the dictatorial tendencies of political godfathers.

Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has said that the security of life and property is receiving priority attention by his administration to ensure that residents go about their activities safely, more so, as the nation prepares for the general elections scheduled to hold this year.

The senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Dino Melaye, has denied reports that he was among the federal lawmakers who booed President Muhammadu Buhari.

A civil society organisation, Initiative for Minority Rights Advancement for Great Development, IMRAGD, has approached a Federal High Court, Abuja, seeking to be joined as an interested party in the suit challenging the ongoing Operation Python Dance III by the Nigerian Army.

Dr Gloria Moses, a general medical practitioner, said that using birth control pills before starting to have children will not affect future fertility.

ALL Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate for Delta State, Chief Great Ogboru has said he would not be availing the state governor and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, the opportunity to debate with him ahead of the 2019 general elections.