Mr. Jude Ndukwe, the aide to the former Minister of Aviation and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has replied a salvo thrown at his principal by President Muhammadu Buhari’s aide, Mrs. Lauretta Onochie, saying the Presidential aide deserves pity and is suffering from senility.

Local government workers yesterday, vowed to ground government activities in Delta State if at the end of its ongoing statewide protest, government fails to settle over 12 months of unpaid salaries.

A FORMER presidential candidate, Prof Pat Utomi, has said the current economic crisis would have been avoided by the Federal Government, if proper policy choices were made, noting that the crash in oil prices was not enough to have resulted in recession.

Enugu State Government, yesterday, berated the All Progressives Congress, APC, following what it described as unwarranted attacks on Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi over his administration’s resolve to shore-up its revenue base through robust taxation.

The US House on Friday approved a $1.1 trillion spending package for 2016 which if approved by the Senate as expected would avert a government shutdown before year-end holidays