A former aide to Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State, Chief Ayakeme Whisky, has decamped to the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, to contest against his erstwhile boss in next year’s governorship election.

Sucour is on the way for commuters plying the ailing Tombia-Etegwe Road, linking the Bayelsa State owned Niger Delta University, Amassoma to Yenagoa, the state capital.

THE House of Representatives, weekend, lamented that the recent abduction of two Lebanese staff of the Reynolds Construction Company, RCC, has stalled on-going construction work at the Benin-Lagos Expressway.

LEADERSHIP of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, in Delta State, has distanced itself from a purported endorsement of Chief Ovie Omo-Agege by the opposition parties in the state, saying that it was ready to field its candidate for the election.

Lagos State Chief Judge, Justice Inumidun Akande, has challenged judges and magistrates in the state to be incorruptible officers whose only aim is to do justice and make pronouncements in law based on the truth with regard to all matters that come before them for adjudication.

The Nigerian Guild of Editors,NGE, biennial Congress to elect its Executive and Standing Committees will now hold Saturday, January 15, 2011 at the Airport Hotel in Lagos.

The Commandant General of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps(NSCDC),Dr Ade Abolurin has assured that the corps has prepared to work intimately with the independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and other law enforcement agencies in the country to ensure a crime free general election come 2011.

The Nigerian Immigration Service has decried the reactivation of slavery and slave trade through human trafficking and child labour with international networks where Nigerians have been traffickers and victims as well.

ONDO State Government weekend reacted to the declaration of Engineer Rauf Aregesola as the governor of Osun State and said that it is a clear indication that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is no longer relevant in the scheme of things in the South West.

Imo State government says it has taken steps to meet the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) with a view to reopening Evan Enwerem University, Owerri, which was shut since July this year.

No fewer than 35 cases of malnourishment have been recorded in the 27 local government areas of Imo State, as the second round Child Health Week progressed.

The United State has assured that it will not interfere in the forthcoming 2011 General election in Nigeria.

ABIA state Comptroller of Prison, Catherine Ononye has lamented the state of the facilities at the Umuahia Prisons, and called on both the Federal and Abia state governments to assist in the improvement of the facilities available in the prison.

Governor Ibrahim Shekarau associate last weekend described Atiku’s emergence as a consensus candidate of the north as ‘sectional’ and ‘not representing true’ Nigerian dream.