By Tony Edike
The Governorship Election Result for Enugu State has been declared with Governor Sullivan Chime winning with 419,790 votes.

The Labour Party candidate, Barr. Okey Ezea came second with 30,135 votes while the People for Democratic Change, PDC scored 29,565 to occupy third position.

Lagos State Governor and Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) gubernatorial candidate, Babatunde Raji Fashola wins in 8 local governments declared by INEC so far. They are: Lagos Mainland, Lagos Island, Badagry, Ibeju-Lekki, Epe, Ikeja, Eti-Osa, Apapa

Governor Raji Babatunde Fashola of Action Congress of Nigeria, (ACN) as at 5am this morning is leading with 5 local governments ahead of rival Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP).

Nigeria’s Flying Eagles have been guaranteed an improved win_bonus should they beat Mali and qualify for the final of the 2011 African Youth Championship in South Africa.

Thirteen persons, including six women and a member of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, working with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, were Tuesday arrested by the police in Lagos State, during the Governorship and House of Assembly Elections in the State, for allegedly attempting to hijack ballot boxes, disrupt electoral processes and tomb-printing of ballots papers.

The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier-General Ismaila Tsiga, yesterday, berated governors in Northern states where corps members were killed in post-presidential election violence, penultimate weekend, and said he was ready to quit.

Nigeria are set to lose defender Gani Ogungbe for their important semi_final clash against Mali on Thursday at the African Youth Championship in Johannesburg.

Immediate past Governor of Lagos State and National leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has stressed the need for compensation to the families of all slain members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, who lost their lives in violence that erupted in some Northern states of the country while serving their fatherland.