GOVERNOR Theodore Orji of Abia State has commended doctors of the state’s teaching hospital for suspending their five-month-old strike.

THE Association of Enugu State Professionals has said the removal of Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo as Peoples Democratic Party’s national chairman might not bring the necessary respite needed by Governor Sullivan Chime for an unfettered return to Government House in May, saying there were other obstacles that could mar his ambition.

THERE are indications that Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, will today (Wednesday) reshuffle his cabinet in a bid to re-strategize and refocus it ahead the forthcoming general elections.

NATIONAL leader of the Ijaw nation, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, yesterday described as malicious, falsehood and blackmail, reports in a national daily (not Vanguard) that he is carrying out voters’ registration in his Warri residence but explained that internally displaced persons of Ayakoromo taking temporary refuge there were being registered by Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Lagos State House of Assembly, yesterday, approved N450.778 billion for 2011 budget as against N445.180 billion presented by the state Governor, Babatunde Fashola, December 14, 2010.

The South-South Parliamentary caucus of the House of Representatives yesterday said not more than 50% of eligible voters in the South-South geo-political region had been registered as a result of several challenges the exercise was facing.

Former Senate President, Senator Ken Nnamani has denied media reports linking him with a Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, gubernatorial aspirant in Enugu State.

AS the battle for who becomes the next National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, hots up, there may have been a major set back for one of the contenders, Chief Olisa Metuh, the National Vice Chairman, South-East of the Party as an Anambra State High Court yesterday stopped him from performing the functions of his office.