Three mid-dle-aged men, Kingsely Akhabue, Fabian Matthew and Ismaila Fatoki, were, yesterday, found guilty of armed robbery and sentenced to death by hanging by a Lagos High Court.

THE Nkwelle Ezunaka community in Oyi local government area of Anambra State yesterday asked the Federal High Court sitting in Awka to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from conducting the April 2011 general election at Ward 12, GRA, Onitsha, unless the area was designated an Nkwelle Ezunaka Ward.

NO fewer than 9,000 security personnel would be deployed to provide security in Edo State, next Saturday, during the National Assembly elections.

Rivers Peoples Congress, has called on opposition gubernatorial candidates in the state to step down for the incumbent, Governor Chibuike Amaechi in next month’s elections.

The embattled Osun State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr Rufus Akeju was on Monday quizzed by the Police over alleged assault on the state correspondent of the Leadership Newspaper, Mr. Sefiu Ayanbimpe

Former Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Timi Alaibe, yesterday, dismissed claims by some opponents in the state on his ineligibility for the governorship race, over alleged forgery of names submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

A Lagos- based businessman, Mr. Fidelis Ogwugwa, has raised alarm over alleged plot to eliminate him by his wife and her lover (names withheld).

The Lagos State branch of the National Association of Nurses and Midwives, NANNM, has suspended its 12 days strike, following a documented agreement by the state government to implement 100 percent of the Consolidate Health Salary Structure, CONHESS, point to point.

A CHIEFTAIN of All Progerssives Grand Alliance, APGA, and Onitsha South local government chairmanship aspirant of the party, Prince Emeka Asoanya, has been kidnapped at Fegge area of the commercial city.

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Capital Market, Senator Ganiyu Solomon, has said the National Assembly would review the 2011 budget passed recently, as it may not have been thoroughly considered.

Ahead of this weekend’s National Assembly’s election the Lagos State Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, held a crucial meeting with security chiefs of various agencies in the state as part of its security arrangement aimed at ensuring a successful violence-free election.