THE Ikemba Nnewi, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu who was flown out of the country on Thursday for emergency medical treatment is now said to be responding to treatment and his condition is improving.

Justice Kunaza Hamidu of the Bauchi High Court has quashed a suit filed by the state government for the arrest of former Gov. Ahmed Muazu. Delivering judgment in Bauchi weekend, Hamidu said the ex-parte motion filed by the government against Muazu lacked merit and struck out the case.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan Friday at Ayakoromo, Burutu local government council of Delta State charged militant leader, John Togo to voluntarily surrender himself to the military Joint Task Force, JTF, to save innocent civilians from unwarranted hardship.

The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has asked the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, to call his men to order in Kwara state, where it says the police are being used by the state government to instigate violence and harass innocent ACN members during and after the Oct. 30th council polls in the state.

FOLLOWING its victory in the Ikorodu II State Constituency bye-election held on Thursday, Lagos State chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Mr. Setonji Koshedo has spoke of the party’s readiness to win the 2011 gubernatorial election in the state.

The governorship candidate for the Democratic Peoples Party(DPP), Chief Great Ogboru Friday stormed Asaba, Delta State capital for a rally, saying he was not comfortable with INEC’s delay in releasing the voters’ register.

A vehicular movement in and out of the Bayelsa State Government House was yesterday temporarily obstructed as pockets of physically challenged persons barricaded the entrance in protest over alleged exclusion from Christmas largesse.

Inspector General of Police, Hafiz Abubakar Ringim, yesterday, warned police commissioners in the country to steer clear of partisan politics and ensure their relationships with the governors of the states began and ended with providing security for lives and property.

The uncooperative attitude of the police yesterday almost marred the arraignment of suspects alleged to have stolen 20 Direct Data Capturing, DDC, machines at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.

An Iranian, Azim Aghajani, who allegedly conspired with three Nigerians, Ali Usman Abbas Jega, Aliyu Oroji Wamako and Muhammad Tukur Umar, to import 13 containers laden with rockets and other ammunition into Nigeria on October 25, 2010, was yesterday granted bail by an Abuja High Court sitting in Maitama.

NO fewer than 20 persons, including National Youth Service Corps members and others travelling for the Christmas holiday, were roasted to death, yesterday, following a ghastly motor accident on the Benin –Asaba highway.