After almost eight weeks in office, Ekiti State Governor, Engr Segun Oni has said he was not in hurry to appoint commissioners and other members of his cabinet, saying he intends to work with the best brains.

EMBATTLED Ogun State lawmaker, Mr. Olawale Hassan Alausa yesterday confirmed that he indeed took an oath but alleged that the oath was administered by Governor Olugbenga Daniel to ensure his loyalty.

By Tony Edike

ENUGU—THE Enugu State Police Command yesterday, paraded 22 suspected criminals, including armed robbers, kidnappers and rapists arrested recently in different parts of the state.

Among  those paraded were Anayo Frank and Kenneth Mamah, who the police said had confessed to being involved in series of kidnappings,  in the South East and South-South [...]

The Lagos State House of Assembly has called on President Umaru Yar’Adua to direct all relevant agencies like the Ministry of Works and the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) to undertake repairs of all federal roads in Lagos State especially the Apapa-Oshodi expressway because of its economic importance.

Two human rights groups, Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) and Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), yesterday called on the Federal Government, to urgently begin the prosecution of Halliburton and its officials in Nigeria for their involvement and complicity in the Halliburton $180 million bribery scandal.

By Olasunkanmi Akoni
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, Sunday, celebrated his 46th birthday, donating food items to the Missionaries of Charity Babies’ Home in Ikosi, Ketu, Alapere just as he donated a new building to the Chief Michael Oyemade Ogunjobi Children’s Home in Surulere.

In a related development, Justice A. N. Nwankwo of the High Court in Ebonyi State has discharged and acquitted Mr. Sunday Awol Adom of all the 19 count charges filed against him and two others.

By Tony Edike

ENUGU—ABOUT 183 different types of unexploded explosives recovered from nine states affected by the Nigerian – Biafran Civil War were yesterday detonated by the Ministry of Defence, 39 years after the war ended.

It was further gathered that about two persons were rushed to an undisclosed hospital as a result of the injuries they sustained in the pandemonium that followed the sporadic shooting in the area.

And it was these that forced the people out of frustration to adopt diverse forms of struggle, including violence exhibited in the forms of vandalization of oil pipelines and facilities, kidnapping of oil workers, hostage taking and engaging in a military warfare with the military deployed to protect oil facilities.

By Vincent Ujumadu

AWKA—THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said, yesterday, that the issue of impeachment of Governor Peter Obi was  never discussed at last week’s meeting of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC)  with  members of the Anambra State House of Assembly in Abuja.

National leadership of the party had summoned the 30 PDP Anambra [...]

He appealed to all militants to embrace the amnesty by Mr. President as that was the only way they could become integrated into the mainstream of the society again after fighting with the Federal Government, warning that “nobody or group could withstand the federal might when it came to war as the recent event has shown.”