Rivers elders give PDP 7-day ultimatum to drop Wike

•Threaten to vote for APC

From CHRIS ANUCHA, Port Harcourt
A group in Rivers State, the Rivers Elders and Leaders Council, which has been clamouring  that  governorship position be zoned  to  the Riverine area, has  given the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) up to January 5, 2015  to substitute Chief Nyesom Wike,   with a Riverine candidate, or face  mass defection to any party  which  fields  a Riverine person as  its candidate.

Abians tired of Orji’s administration, says Udensi

Abia State governorship candidate on the platform of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), Chief Chikwe Udensi, has re-assured the people of the state of his desire to ensure the welfare of the people is given priority in the policy trust of his administration.
Udensi made the pledged on Saturday at the Igbotonma festival held at Igbere Secondary School in Bende Local Government Area of Abia State.

NMA probes doctor’s death

Ondo State chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr. David Oguntuase, who died in an inferno that  razed his Universal Medical Clinic, Akure, the Ondo State capital on Christmas Day.

Blast kills one at Yobe football field

A bomb targeted at footballers  at a field in Yobe has killed one, witnesses said.
The explosive device suspected to have been planted in a football field in Potiskum, a commercial town in Yobe, went off at about 6.30p.m. on Sunday

Lagos blasts Sambo over alleged tax imposition

Lagos State Government yesterday castigated Vice President Namadi Sambo over his comments during his recent visit to the state that people were leaving Lagos in droves as a result of the heavy tax imposed on them by the state government.

Unity of Nigeria paramount, says Kalu

Eminent businessman and former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Kalu, has called on Nigerians, home and abroad to ensure togetherness through peaceful co-existence irrespective of religious, political and ethnic differences.

FG loses N40bn to rice concessions, waivers, smuggling in 2014

The Federal Government’s backward integration plan for the rice industry is currently under threat and may subsequently suffer a setback. Daily Sun findings revealed that government may have lost a whopping N20 billion to concessions and waivers in 2014.
Indeed, the country may continue to lose an additional  N20 billion to smugglers of the commodity, except the Federal Government addresses the yawning gap under its backward integration plan for the rice industry.