FIRST civilian governor of Edo State and national chairman of the South-South Peoples Assembly, SSPA, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, who is gunning for the position of National Chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, has said he is in the race to give the party a credible leadership alternative.

STRIKING health workers in the Edo State-owned hospitals, yesterday, appealed to the people of the state, to prevail on the state government to implement the new salary structure for health workers, approved by the Federal Government.

MEMBERS of the Ogun State House of Assembly have been asked to reconsider their stance on the Bond issue in the interest of the people of the State. Stakeholders in the State made the appeal at the end of its one-day Ogun Stakeholders’ Forum held in Abeokuta on Wednesday

PROMINENT political leaders including former President Ibrahim Babangida, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Senate President Iyorcha Ayu, former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Audu Ogbeh, Mallam Adamu Ciroma and Alhaji Bello Kirfi as members of the Northern Political Leaders Forum, yesterday, marshaled arguments in favour of retention of zoning and warned that its abandonment could have significant consequences for the stability of the polity.

The Action Congress, AC, said yesterday that it has confidence in the person of the newly appointed Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof, Atahiru Jega, but that INEC as an institution, is laden with high ranking officials who have no integrity and do not have the confidence of Nigerians to help Jega hold free and fair elections