IT is unconventional to ignore local security plans by security operatives on presidential duty, Commissioner of Police, Rivers State, Mr Suleiman Abba, has observed as he testified at the Commission of Inquiry on last Saturday’s stampede in Port Harcourt, which resulted in the death of 11 persons.

Elder statesman of Ijaw nation, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday, explained his absence at the South-South campaign rally of President Goodluck Jonathan held in Port-Harcourt on February 12, saying that contrary to speculations in some quarters, he was very much committed to the Goodluck/Sambo ticket.

The campaign organisation of Senator Gbemisola Saraki, the gubernatorial candidate of Allied Congress Party of Nigeria, ACPN, in Kwara State, yesterday, raised alarm over plans to circulate posters that contains a nude picture with the head of the female politician superimposed on it.

Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State, yesterday, inaugurated the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that would investigate all human right abuses in the state in the last eight years with the resolve that the commission was not targeted at any particular person or group of persons or a witch-hunt.

Twenty four hours after the Court of Appeal reinstated the impeached Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State,Peremobowei Ebebi, the state weekly executive council meeting which could not hold Wednesday, due to the ruling, sat yesterday, and passed a vote of confidence on the embattled Deputy Governor, Chief Werinipre Seibarugu.