COMMERCIAL and social activities in and around Apapa, Lagos were abruptly brought to a halt Wednesday after a petrol tanker exploded into flames burning its driver and motor boy to death.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State yesterday broke his silence on the three-week-old strike action embarked upon by health workers in the state, describing it as a blackmail and ill conceived.

A Federal House of Representative hopeful in the Isoko federal constituency, Mr. Emmanuel Okoro, has vowed to give the Isoko people adequate representation if voted into power.

MINISTER of Information and Communications, Professor Dora Akunyili, has relieved her Senior Special Assistant Media, Mazi Obi Adindu, of his duties, just as she sent her Media Assistant, Mr. Julius Ogunro, on suspension over what she described as unauthorised response to Prof Chukwuma Soludo

Ahead of the 2011 general elections, a group of Nigerians living in the United Kingdom, under the aegis of “Vision Nigeria 2011” have commended the Governors of the South-South “for courageously rejecting the so-called zoning system and pitching their tents with President Goodluck Jonathan” in the 2011 presidential election.

THE Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Global Fleet Group and Publisher of the National Mirror Newspaper, Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim, will be honoured with the first Change Nigeria Award, at the 6th convocation of the Benson Idahosa University, Benin City, scheduled for this weekend.

National chairman, youth wing of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, Dr Abel Damina has berated those rooting for the zoning formula saying Nigerians should instead search for credible leaders to lead the country in 2011 and beyond.

The bitter rivalry that exist among Benue politicians took a turn for the worst midweek when six armed men stormed the home of a Peoples Democratic Party PDP stalwart Comrade Johnson Awua, shooting sporadically with the intent to kill him.