Eminent persons, including former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, (Rtd), former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, former Governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chris Ngige, legal icon, Professor Yemi Osibanjo, SAN, and Mr. Ayo Opadokun, yesterday insisted that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, must compile a new voters’ register if the nation should have credible, free and fair elections next year

ABIA State House of Assembly has mandated its speaker to direct the state chief judge to urgently set up a panel to investigate allegations of gross misconduct made by majority of lawmakers in the House against the deputy governor of the state, Comrade Chris Akomas

THE Federal Government, yesterday, announced fresh regulations for the next batch of ex-militants who are due in camp before the end of this month to undergo non-violence training at Obubra in Cross-River State.

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, will next week Thursday, elect its national officers to run the association for the next two
years. To this effect, the 88 branches of the association will gather in the ancient city of Ibadan, Oyo State for the election. As usual, the office of the President, is always the most keenly contested. This time around, two prominent lawyers, Chief Jeo-Kyari Gadzama SAN and Mr Joseph Daudu, SAN are both running for the position.

FOLLOWING the strike action embarked upon by health workers in Edo State, there are no longer bed spaces at the Federal Government owned University of Benin Teaching Hospital, UBTH, due to the astronomical increase in the number of patients.