David Mark Urges Youths to Embrace Sports and Entertainment

Former Senate President David Mark, has urged youths in the country to take to sports and the entertainment industry as means of promoting peace and unity across the country.

Mark who said this at the opening of the 2015 Mark d’Ball Basketball Competition in Otukpo, Benue, said athletes as well as those in the entertainment industry had done so well to unite the country.

National Assembly shutdown for PDP conference

The two Chambers of the National Assembly were yesterday shutdown for the rebranding conference of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) holding today in Abuja, our correspondents report.

The Upper Chamber announced the adjournment of sitting to Tuesday, after a closed door session presided over by the Senate President Bukola Saraki.

Olisa Metuh Only Nurse for a Dying PDP - Senate Leader

Nigerian Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, has described the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as a party in coma and which has no doctor or pharmacist except Olisa Metuh who serves as nurse.

Until April this year, the PDP was the ruling party in the country since Nigeria’s return to democratic governance in 1999 and Metuh is its current National Publicity Secretary.