MALLAM Ali Baba Hadeja, 90, newspapers vendor has died in Maiduguri,Borno State capital after a brief illness leaving behind many children,grand-children and great grand-children.

Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PCHN, has appealed to electricity consumers in some parts of Port Harcourt, to show understanding as they would experience total black out that would last for five days.

FOLLOWING Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC’s request for a postponement of the elections from January to April 2011, the National Assembly, yesterday, summoned the INEC Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega and the Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Mohammed Adoke to a meeting next Monday, even as more Nigerians had declared their support for the postponement.

The Bayelsa State chapter of the Civil Liberties Organisation, CLO, has alleged that some men of the Bayelsa Police Command and soldiers of the Joint Task Force, JTF, have been engaging in large scale extortion from commercial motorists and motorcycle operators in the state.

THE police in Abraka, Delta State, yesterday, summoned the national president of the Ighele r’ Urhobo ( youth wing) of the Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, Engineer Avwerosuoghene Okoro, over Monday’s fracas in the community.

FORMER Deputy Governor of Edo State and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Reverend Peter Obadan, has predicted doom for his party, if the leaders fail to cede the 2012 governorship ticket to the Edo North Senatorial district.