GOVERNOR Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola of Osun State has promised to redirect the course of governance in the State in the direction of human and social development of the people after what he claims to be seven and a half years of directionless administration.

On a day that the Court of Appeal declared Engr. Rauf Aregbesola as the winner of the 2007 Osun State governorship elections, six months to the end of his supposed tenure after three and a half years of legal fisticuffs, President Goodluck Jonathan, former President of Pakistan, Gen. Pervez Musharaf and former Ambassador to the United Nations, Chief Arthur Mbanefo, have urged Nigerians to end election rigging by protecting their votes in the 2011 polls.

THE Spate of kidnappings in Edo state reared up its head yesterday in Benin as the General Manager of Edo Broadcasting Service (EBS), Mr. Tunde Ebozoje was abducted by unknown gunmen.

FORMER Vice President Atiku Abubakar yesterday fired back at President Goodluck Jonathan, asking him to take bold and accept responsibility as the leader of the country, just as he said that accusing him was a show of shame.

Rotimi Amaechi versus Celestine Omehia, 26 Oct. 2007In a unanimous judgment read by the presiding judge, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, the Supreme Court, in Abuja sacked the Celestine Omehia-led administration in Rivers State and ordered that Rotimi Amaechi be sworn in immediately as governor of Rivers State.