FEARS have gripped workers of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as its new Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega, is set to assume office this week.

THE emergence of a new Deji of Akure, in Ondo State may take longer than necessary as two ruling houses are at loggerheads over the selection of the head and secretary of the Ojijigogun ruling house.

REPORTS that President Goodluck Jonathan said the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was scared of the emergence of Prof. Attahiru Jega as Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, were, yesterday, described as outright falsehood.

THE Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Arc. Musa Sada has confirmed that some sections of the Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited, ASCL, will be opened for operation, and that N600 million has been set aside to re-start the plant shut since 2008.

SPEAKER of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dimeji Banole and Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Mohammed Bello Adoke, have expressed outrage over the high number of Nigerians in prisons overseas for drug trafficking. They also frowned on the involvement of Nigerian youths under age 12 in drug abuse.

A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has thrown out the suit filed by some indigenes to stop the demolition of shanty structures at the Port Harcourt waterfronts.