SENIOR Special Assistant to Bayelsa State Governor on Conflict Resolution, Michael Wenibowei, Tuesday evening, escaped death by the whiskers when unknown gunmen attacked his residence.

THE Police High Command, yesterday, canvassed staggered polls, such that those of state governors, senators, House of Representatives members and council chairmen would be rotated on zone by zone basis.

The nation’s leading computer whiz-kids and ICT experts continued brainstorming, yesterday, on ICT solutions to the nation’s electoral system which had been bedevilled in the past by many woes as the annual conference of the Nigerian Computer Society holding in Asaba enters the third day.

DELTA State Government has restated its willingness to partner with the Nigerian Nuclear Regulator Authority, NNRA, as the state is home to a large contingent of operators, using ionising radiation in the oil and gas industry.

THE same group of ex-militants who stormed Abuja, some weeks ago, to protest their exclusion from the post-amnesty programme, yesterday, renewed their protest in Warri, Delta State.

Diehard criminals in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, have evolved a new system of perpetrating crime, by clothing themselves in religious wears, clutching the Bible and visit residential houses, pretending to be itinerary preachers only to dispossess their victims of their belongings.

AREWA Consultative Forum, ACF, yesterday, distanced itself from the debate on the ongoing controversy over the zoning of the presidency. It said the issue was of concern to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and therefore not a constitutional matter.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos yesterday declared that the seizure of the assets of Vaswani brothers and the subsequent detention of some expatriate staff of Popular Foods Limited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, were illegal and inconsistent with the law.