GOVERNOR Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State, Monday, said his former boss, Senator Rashidi Ladoja had lost his electoral value and trying to contest the 2011 poll was tantamount to political suicide.

National Conscience Party, NCP, has asked Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and Independent Corrupt Practices and other offences Commission, ICPC, to immediately commence investigations into the alleged ongoing corruption in the operation and management of the Federation Account.

The National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Attahiru Jega, Monday, said no amount of pressure that would be brought on him would make him resign his position as the head of the electoral body.

EX-MILITANTS who are undergoing different skill acquisition programmes in Sapele, Delta State, Monday, abandoned their training activities and laid siege to the Warri-Benin road for up to three hours.

A Lebanese Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. George Keiruz, has been kidnapped at Obehie Junction, Asa, Abia State, along Aba-Port Harcourt expressway by 10 gunmen who drove in a jeep. The bandits were said to have sped out of their hideout, crossed the priest’s car and forced it to an abrupt halt.

An international management consultant based in the United Kingdom, Mr Kachi Okezie, has called for a shift of emphasis in Nigeria from paper qualifications to skills that are relevant to the labour market.

ABIA North Patriotic Youth Forum, ANPYF, has thrown its weight behind the senatorial aspiration of Mao Ohuabunwa for Abia North Senatorial district come 2011.

Solicitor to the former executives of Electronics Dealers Association of Onitsha, EDAO, has appealed to Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State and Acting Inspector General of Police, Mr. Hafix Ringim, to prevail on Chief Okechukwu Okoli’s led new executive of the association to unlock shops of members of the erstwhile executive in order to avert breakdown of law and order.