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  Sunday and his children. Photo: Stelladimokorkus 22493 Kunle Falayi Three months after a tragic incident left 12-year-old Mary Udoh and her three siblings (aged nine, seven and 12 months) motherless, and almost made them orphans, life has been a downward spiral of torment for the children. Saturday PUNCH tracked down the children three months after their mother, Comfort and father, Sunday, were shot by a police corporal, Musefiu Aremu of the Isheri Oshun Police Division, Ijegun, Lagos, and learnt that a lot has changed for the worse in the lives of the children. Speaking with difficulties through a yet-to-heal jaw wound he sustained during the tragic incident, Sunday told our correspondent that after witnessing the traumatic incident, Mary, who is his oldest child, has been having seizures, which doctors have diagnosed as induced by the traumatic incident she witnessed. Recollecting the events of that tragic day, Sunday, a tricycle (Keke

  Dickson, Sylva 12060 Simon Utebor, Yenagoa Ahead of Saturday, January 9, 2016 rerun election in Bayelsa State, candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, Seriake Dickson, and his All Progressives Congress counterpart, Timipre Sylva, are making final moves to win the poll. In the rerun, which will produce the eventual winner, the candidates of the two frontline political parties, will contend for no fewer than 100,000 votes in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area and 101 polling units across six LGAs in the state. In the seven out of the results of eight LGAs declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, the incumbent governor, Dickson, polled 105,748 votes as against former Governor Sylva’s 72,534, indicating that Dickson is ahead with 33,214. Based on records from the Independent National Electoral Commission, SILGA has Permanent Voter Cards collection of about 70,000, while the accredited votes of the 101 cancelled polling

  Executive Secretary, PPPRA, Mr. Farouk Ahmed 13105 Our correspondent The PPPRA has vowed to sanction any filling station found flouting government’s directive. The Assistant General Manager/Head of Operations, PPPRA, Mr. Victor Shidok, threatened that the agency would withdraw licences of defaulters. Shidok, who led a team from the PPPRA to monitor the level of compliance with the directive in Abuja, warned that the government would not tolerate any deviation from the new directive. He said the monitoring, which was simultaneously going on across the country, was done in conjunction with the DPR to ensure that Nigerians were not shortchanged. Shidok stated that there was 100 per cent compliance as at press time in the city centre, but noted the team had yet to reach the outskirts where he feared that there might be challenges with regard to total compliance. He said, “The challenge may likely be in the outskirts. All those we

Buhari, Osinbajo 8755 The economic downturn in Nigeria has adversely affected the fortune of most workers. But while the working class is expected to adjust to the harsh times, leaders do not compromise on their comfort, GBENRO ADEOYE writes Reports have hardly been kind to Nigeria, especially, the ones about the wellbeing of the people. In 2014, the United Nations Development Programme ranked Nigeria 152 out of 187 countries on the scale of the Human Development Index, with other African countries like Algeria, Botswana, Egypt, South Africa and Ghana coming ahead of the country often touted as the Giant of Africa.

By Godwin Oghre, Sapele Abductors of Mrs Queen Eyetan Egbedi, mother of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s Senior Special Assistant on Agriculture and immediate past Chairman of Sapele Local Government Council, Mr Julius Egbedi, yesterday demand a ransom of N35m to secure her release. Mrs Egbedi, aged 73 was kidnapped at about 11pm on Sunday 27/12/2015, at her country home in Ituru-Elume, within Sapele Local Government Council, by unknown gunmen, and has since remained in their custody as at the time of filing this news. An eye witness account said the kidnappers came with a Jetta car while another said they came in an Audi 80 car, parked at a distance of about a hundred yards and walked straight to her door, broke it down and dragged her away into the car and sped off that night. A source close to the 3 Battalion of the Nigeria Army in charge of the area said fiery soldiers have since swung in and currently intensifying the search for the victim, adding that about six suspe