POLITICIANS across the South West except the Peoples Democratic Party, yesterday at a consultative meeting with Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, made a fresh call to INEC to immediately transfer Mrs. Ayoka Adebayo, the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Ondo State, out of the region.

CHAIRMAN of Ikenne Local Government Area in Ogun State, Otunba Tiwalade Sobo and a member of the crisis ridden Ogun State House of Assembly, Mr Omosanya Sholaja, have berated Professor Wole Soyinka and Pastor Tunde Bakare, for allegedly taking sides in the crisis House, just as they maintained that what the group of lawmakers, G11, did was legal and constitutional.

As Nigeria celebrates her 50th independence anniversary today, medical doctors under the aegis of National Association of General and Dental Practitioners, NAGGMPD, Anambra State chapter, have said it was a wonderful thing for Nigeria to have remained united for 50years, in spite of all the crisis that had plagued the country, saying the golden jubilee was worth celebrating.

NO fewer than 15 kidnappers were killed in a devastating offensive launched in at least two of the camps of the hoodlums by a combined squad of Army, Navy, Air Force, Police and State Security personnel yesterday

Capt. Olubolade, who spoke in an interview with newsmen at the presidential wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, also said the Ministry had stopped all construction works on Abuja Airport road to stave off the perennial traffic bottleneck and pave way for smooth movement of dignitaries from the airport to the city.

An Ikeja High court has convicted and sentenced a hairdresser, Miss Mary Eze, to 75 years imprisonment for committing fraud totaling N1.5 million.

Lagos State chapter of the African Renaissance Party, ARP, has criticised the government’s handling of compensations to victims of the ongoing expansion of Lagos-Badagry Expressway.