ONDO State government yesterday took a swipe at the kidnappers of the 80-year-old mother of a Commissioner in the state, Madam Pege Esther Tewe and her 12-year-old grand daughter Rachael Lawrence, describing them as heartless and wicked.

United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA), the pan African banking group with operations in 19 African countries, as well as presence in New York, London and Paris, released its Q3 2010 financial results, underlining its strong operating performance and inherent resilience in a challenging environment.

PEOPLES Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekiti State, has dared the new governor of the state, Dr Kayode Fayemi, to go ahead with his threat to probe the immediate past administration led by Engr. Segun Oni, saying the planned probe was aimed at blindfolding the people from monitoring the programmes of the new government.

Former minister of Information, and Ijaw Leader Edwin Clark, has said that Mallam Adamu Ciroma’s utterances on the recent October 1, Abuja Bomb blast are provocative, adding that he has converted a major national calamity into political comedy.

THE House of Representatives, yesterday, passed for the second reading, a bill seeking to amend the altered 1999 Constitution to accommodate the demand by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to move the date of the 2011 General election from January to March 2011 The Reps also condemned a comment by Senator Ayo Arise in which he admonished the Senate “not to behave so unruly like the House of Representatives”