Suspected armed hoodlums, yesterday, launched attack on the Opokuma country home of the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Local Government and Community Development, Mr. Waripamowei Dudafa, in the Kolokuma-Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

Amidst security concerns over 2011 presidential election and the debate over candidates, former Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Col. Ahmadu Ali, rtd, warned yesterday that Nigerians will chase out of the streets any military adventurist that might want to stage a coup at this critical period of Nigeria’s march to nationhood.

Ahead of the 50th independence anniversary celebration of Nigeria,National President, Non- Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, has threatened to mobilise the leadership of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, for a nationwide industrial action if the Federal Government fails to announce and pay the minimum wage before then

NOBEL Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, and the convener of the Save Nigeria Group, SNG, Pastor Tunde Bakare, yesterday, urged President Goodluck Jonathan to intervene in the crisis in the Ogun House of Assembly

THE Universal Basic Education Board, UBEB, yesterday, attributed the mass failure in the last NECO examination to lack of basic textbooks.

VIENNA, AUSTRIA—SWEETCRUDE, Nigeria’s monthly energy industry news magazine is eliciting tremendous interests and accolades at the ongoing member countries’ exhibitions to mark the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, which opened in Vienna, Austria, Monday.