The House of Representatives ad-hoc Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution has approved 30 post-election days before the handover date in 2011, just as it adopted the 150 days recommended by the Muhammed Uwais’ Electoral Review Committee to allow time for judicial pronouncements on election litigations.

GOVERNOR Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, has assured that the state government would implement all laws so far passed by the state House of Assembly.

Conference of Registered Political Parties, CNPP, said yesterday that the BB-Minus rating of Nigerian economy by Fitch was the true reflection of the state of the nation’s economy, and blamed it on selfish policies embarked upon by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the last decade.

THE Benin zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday, rose from its emergency meeting and called on the five governors of the South East States to resign their positions for alleged attempt to turn the state universities in the South East into “ethnic enclaves”.

Part of the focus for the upcoming 3rd Regional Deepwater Offshore West Africa Conference and Exhibitions, DAWOC, is to explore business challenges and developments in the region’s deepwater, with a view to attracting more investments in the area.

Cholera has killed more than 1,500 Nigerians since January in one of the worst outbreaks in years, with heavy rains spreading the disease particularly in poor northern states, the United Nations, UN, said yesterday.

MEMBER representing Ughelli South Local Government Constituency in the Delta State House of Assembly, Olorogun Taleb Tebite, has charged Deltans to key into the peace and security agenda of the State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan.

Disturbed by claims and counter claims of conflicting functions by the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, the Federal Government yesterday set up a committee to probe these claims.