Speakers of North Central State Houses of Assemblies have declared their support for the 2011 election bid of President Gookluck Jonathan, insisting that the geo-political zone stands to benefit more in terms of socio-economic development under the Jonathan/Sambo presidency

The House of Representatives yesterday said the recent call by the Inspector General of the Police, Alhaji. Hafiz Ringim, for scrapping of Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDS, was an affront on the National Assembly which made the law legalising the Corps.

A frontline governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kwara State, Engr. Sunday Adebayo Babalola, has enjoined the party leaders and other stakeholders to ensure that the party produced the next governor from Kwara South Senatorial District in the interest of fairness, justice and fair play

More than 50 pensioners in Sokoto State have died while awaiting their federal pensions from year 2000 to date. This was disclosed by Alhaji Ahmed Tangaza, Chairman of the Sokoto State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners, NUP, in Sokoto.

It is meanwhile, praying the court to declare that the dissolution of the democratically elected 18 local government areas in Edo State by Governor Oshiomhole on October 25, 2010, is unconstitutional, illegal, null and void and of no effect whatsoever.

Former Governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday boasted that Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will lose in the 2011 general elections in the South-West.

International, yesterday, called on the Rivers State government, to halt its planned demolitions and evictions in waterfront areas of Port Harcourt, arguing that it will leave over 200,000 people homelessness, if the threat is carried out.

Police in Plateau State said they have arrested seven people in connection with Monday’s attack on a village in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State in which six people were killed.