FORMER Minister of Information and Communications and senatorial candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, for Anambra Central in the April 2011 election, Professor Dora Akunyili, has said that fake drug dealers who are allegedly threatening to deny her their votes during the forthcoming election for her role as the Director-General of the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, were wasting their time.

Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, has warned the Federal Government and other ECOWAS leaders against military action to resolve the political crisis in Cote d’ Ivoire, saying ECOWAS leaders have enough lessons to learn from the military intervention in Liberia. The chamber said the Nigerian economy at the moment had enough challenges.

WORRIED by the rising spate of insecurity caused by kidnapping, terrorism, armed robbery, among others, and to ensure that these crimes were nipped in the bud, the General Officer Commanding, GOC, 82 Division, Enugu, Major General Sarkin Yakin Bello, has ordered troops in his area of command, covering 11 states of the federation, to be alert.

PRESIDENTIAL candidate of the Social Democratic Mega Party, SDMP, Prof. Pat Utomi, yesterday, urged youths not to succumb to the intimidation of desperate politicians by resisting manipulation at the forthcoming polls.

FORMER Military President Ibrahim Babangida yesterday condemned last Friday killing of the Borno State Candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, Engr. Fannami Modu Gubio and six others, just as he said that the act which “is barbaric and frightening calls for worry by all in the country.”

A combined team of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, and Police has impounded 15 tonnes of weeds, suspected to be Indian hemp estimated at about N45 million at Abbi, in Delta State.

Kwara State Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Governorship candidate, Mohammed Dele Belgore, (SAN) has said he represents the multitude of Kwarans who desire a clean break away from decades of socio-economic and political servitude and repression.

POLITICAL differences between Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State and the Senate Leader, Senator Teslim Folarin worsened weekend, as they used uncomplimentary remarks on each other.

DELTA State Police Command has called on politicians to always conduct themselves in an orderly manner by not breaching the peace, saying that it used wisdom and maturity to handle the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, primaries held in Asaba, weekend, for the election of the Delta North senatorial candidate of the party, when the exercise at a point turned riotous.

THE Senator representing Edo Central Senatorial District in the Senate, Senator Odion Ugbesia, weekend, said that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will teach its Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, counterpart in Edo State the politics of its life and run the party out of the state.

A middle-age foreign national suspected to be an Israeli, Daniel Lamdan, was weekend found dead in a hotel room name, (withheld) in Ado Ekiti where he lodged as a guest. Daniel, who according to sources, was a security expert invited by the state government for a yet to be disclosed mission to the state.

PRESIDENTIAL candidate of National Conscience Party, NCP, Bashorun Dele Momodu, has told President Goodluck Jonathan to brace up for debates on the state of the nation. Bashorun Momodu said the debate was imperative because of the dwindling fortunes of the nation’s economy.

THE Edo State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the state government, weekend, traded words over the resignation of some commissioners in the state.

Edo State Government, yesterday, said there was nothing wrong with the resignations of some commissioners in the state. Special Adviser to Governor Adams Oshiomhole, Mr Tony Iyare, in a statement said, “our attention has been drawn to deliberate misinformation, innuendoes and outright mischief in the media, arising from recent development in Edo State arising from cabinet changes.