Even with calls for the implementation of the Justice Uwais report on electoral reform, the Chairman Senate Committee on Works, Senator Julius Ucha has said that the present 2006 Electoral Act in operation is not completely insufficient.

The ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has become an embarrassment to the nation’s image and an indication of the little attention the country availed and viewed its youths and future generation, Catholic Priest, Monsignor Pius Kii, has said.

The age-long water crisis in Kwara State seems set for a final end before the present administration expires in 2011 as about 8.3 billion Naira has been earmarked for the expansion and rehabilitation of all the existing 78 dams across the state.

THE International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law has reminded President Umaru Yar’Adua that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as presently constituted was faulty, saying there is need to appoint more national commissioners to meet the constitutional provisions for the operations of the Commission.

Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, who is standing trial before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Abuja, has requested from the Code of Conduct Bureau, a Certified True Copy of his Asset Declaration Forms, which he allegedly submitted on March 14, 2003.

The Senate has invited former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and all the other presidential candidates in the 2007 general elections to share their experiences on the country’s electoral problems.

Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi said at the weekend that criminality in the Niger Delta has weakened the genuine aspiration for resource control, noting that there was need for a line to be drawn between criminality and genuine struggle for resource control.

The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) yesterday criticised President Umaru Yar’Adua’s trip to Saudi Arabia in place of the just concluded General Assembly of the United Nations, where it said Nigeria’s interest would have been better served in international dynamic system.

DELTA State police command says it has arrested a one-time Chairman of Isoko South local government council (names withheld) for allegedly invading Irri community with hired armed men.

Against the backdrop of the current global economic meltdown, Bayelsa State government has hailed the management of Trans Atlantic Mortgages for not recording any indebtedness during this fiscal year.

AS the October 4, 2009, date set by the Federal Government for militants to embrace amnesty and surrender their weapons approaches, a group, the Niger Delta Guerrilla Fighters, based in Ajakoroma, Edo State, has indicated its willingness to embrace the amnesty.