The Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, candidate in the forth-coming gubernatorial re-run election in Delta State, Chief Great Ogboru, has accused erstwhile Governor James Ibori and Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan who succeeded him of wasting N800 billion that accrued to the state between year 2000 and this year.

MINISTER of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, yesterday, rebuffed claims that he was used by the Presidency to bribe members of the Save Nigeria Group, SNG.

The Senate, yesterday, reacted to the statement credited to the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, that the 25 per cent of the national budget is expended on the National Assembly, saying the statement was part of an orchestrated campaign to tarnish the image of the National Assembly.

THERE are strong indications that another round of fuel scarcity is imminent as the Petroleum Tanker Drivers, PTD, branch of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, yesterday began a seven-day warning strike over among others, alleged killing of a member.

ALL roads lead to the corporate headquarters of the Vanguard Media Limited, publishers of Vanguard Newspapers, venue of this year’s Vanguard Media Christian Fellowship’s end of year revival programme where the General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye is expected to minister today.

Ahead of the 2011 general elections, Defence Minister, Adetokumbo Kayode, yesterday said the armed forces would not wait for the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to solicit the support of the armed forces in the area of provision of, and enhancement of security towards a peaceful, free and fair elections as well as other logistics support requirements

Two members of the National Assembly from Ekiti State, Senator Ayo Arise and Duro Faseyi, have raised the alarm over alleged plot to attack them by some agents of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in the state.

Ekiti State Government and the public servants in the employment of state government are set on collision course as the workers have vowed not to accept anything less than the N18,000 recently approved as minimum wage by the Council of State.

THE Tin-Can Island Port Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has employed stringent security measures following threats by protesting clearing agents to burn down the Customs Processing Centre, CPC, of the Command.

IN its effort to reduce crime in the state, the Borno State Police Command, yesterday, shot dead two robbers and recovered two AK 47 rifles with 10 loaded magazines.