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THE All Progressives Congress has demanded an apology from Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe, over an alleged unprovoked attack on Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello.
The governing party equally demanded that the Senator representing Abia North, should retract defamatory statements made against the governor or be prepared to substantiate same in Court.
This was contained in a statement titled, ‘APC to PDP: Tell Abaribe to retract and apologise for his lies against Governor Bello, Senator Smart,’ signed by the acting National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Yekini Nabena, in Abuja, on Monday.
Recall that Senator Smart Adeyemi (APC, Kogi), had in an attempt to get at his fellow Senator from Abia State, Eyinnaya Abaribe, on the floor of the Senate, described the Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu as a drunkard.
SunStar
+ March 01, 2021 We are asking Visayan Electric Company (Veco) to pursue creative means in reducing the cost of power in Metro Cebu, especially now that the country is starting to recover from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. The data from the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) show that Veco is currently 28th highest in average residential rate in the country. Moreover, I believe Veco can still do more.
For Veco, being the 28th highest among over 100 distribution utilities and electric cooperatives all over the country may be enough, but for us, consumers, it is not. They can still do more.
Gangs in Hawke s Bay: More patches, more players, fewer crimes
22 Feb, 2021 12:02 AM
7 minutes to read
There s movement in Hawke s Bay s gang scene, but a local expert says it s unlikely to disrupt the region s main players. Photo / File
Hawkes Bay Today
By: Christian Fuller
The fight to own Hawke s Bay s methamphetamine market has brought about an expansion of the region s gang scene. Fourteen different gangs, and more than 1200 patched members, are now on the police s watchlist. But those numbers don t tell the full story. Christian Fuller reports.
Official police records suggest Hawke s Bay s gang population has doubled in five years.
But those very same records also paint a picture of a rapidly changing face of the region s gang scene.
Quake anniversary: Why is Christchurch still broken?
9 minutes to read
Ten years on from the devastating February 22, 2011 earthquake, which claimed 185 lives and caused widespread destruction, how far has the Christchurch rebuild come? Herald senior journalist Kurt Bayer highlights five central city sites that tell a dual tale of progress and a lack of progress.
The experts, as they are wont to do, weighed in quickly. With the aftershocks still rumbling with the relentless monotony of trucks on a motorway, they envisaged Christchurch s rebuild would take 10, maybe 15, or even 20 years, to complete.
And a decade on, as a quick tour of the English-styled Garden City shows, they were probably about right.