THE Peoples Democratic Party of Nigeria (PDP) in Ogun State will on Friday hold a public debate for all its aspirants at all levels for them to explain to the people their programmes.

ETHNIC sentiments by the majority Urhobo population in Delta State will not stop the election of Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate in the fresh gubernatorial election, the Delta State Commissioner for Communication and Orientation, Chief Paulinus Akpeki has said.

Wife of the Commander of the Special Task Force maintaining peace in Plateau State, Brigadier-General Hassan Umoru, died last Saturday after falling into a well in what was described as an accident.

Members of the National Convention Committee, NCC, of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, are meeting in Benin to review reports of the local government congresses that took place across the country, yesterday.

Pensioners that retired from the Federal Civil Service, yesterday, invaded the office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, HOCSF, in Abuja, over non-payment of pensions.

NIGERIA’S march towards an open society was last Wednesday threatened in a palpable way by the country’s law makers, the so-called representatives of the people, at the National Assembly who usually want us to believe that they have the mandate of Nigerians to work on behalf of the people

After an Abuja High Court last Thursday declared the suspension of Dino Melaye (PDP/Kogi) and four other members of the House of Representative illegal, Melaye stormed the National Assembly to occupy his office which had been allocated to Buba Jibril (PDP/Kogi)

PRESIDENT of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Prof. Ukachukwu Awuzie, yesterday, accused the five governors of the South East states of what he described as “criminal conspiracy against the Igbo” by their alleged failure to solve the lingering problem in the universities in the states.

Eminent lawyer and founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Are Afe Babalola, SAN, has petitioned the presidency over the abandonment of the repairs of federal roads in Ekiti State by the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, FERMA, and the poor condition of federal roads in the state, saying some of these roads have become death-traps to motorists.

THE people of Irri community in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State woke up, yesterday to be confronted with the death of five villagers, including a woman and her daughter, in a renewed violence by armed youths over leadership crisis.