THE Federal Government, yesterday, took a swipe at former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, over his claim on the state of the Nigerian economy, saying that Soludo’s days at the CBN remain the worst ever in Nigeria’s history.

CRISIS is brewing at the Edo State Pensions Board, following allegations that some top members of the Board were involved in the registeration of fake names as pensioners to defraud the state government.

MOVEMENT for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, yesterday, said it was not party to the alleged threat by any militant groups in the region on the Director-General of the Ibrahim Babangida Campaign Organisation, Chief Raymond Dokpesi.

Director-General of the organising committee for the celebration of Nigeria’s Golden Jubilee, Dr. B.K Kaigama, has narrated the ordeal his committee had passed through in the hands of foreign multi-national companies operating in Nigeria over sponsorship of the events lined up for the anniversary

The Village Head of Okoroba in Ikot Ansa, Calabar, Cross River State, Esinjo Francis Edet, has called on Police authorities to investigate and apprehend the mother of a day old baby, who was dumped in a garbage bin and left to die.

he Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okogie, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to amend the timetable for the conduct of 2011 general elections forward.
Okogie said at the second plenary session of Catholic Bishops’ Conference in Ijebu-Ode that the time-table released by INEC for the elections was too early for a free and fair exercise.

People suspected to be hired assassins exploited the cloak of the night on Monday to slaughter an Assistant Director of the State Security Service, SSS, his wife and three children.

The Anniversary Committee of Nigeria at 50 has released a series of activities lined up to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of the nation which begins today with an Anniversary Lecture entitled “ICT Age: Its Implications for Nigeria and Africa,’’ at the ECOWAS Parliament, Abuja.

A constitutional lawyer, Dr Akpo Mudiaga-Odje, has urged the Federal Government to tell Nigerians which constitution it is applying in respect of the 2011 elections.

A governorship aspirant in Delta State, Chief Ovie Omo-Agege, has vowed to wrestle power from the state Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, in the 2011 polls, reiterating that the Governor had grossly impoverished Deltans beyond any stretch of imagination.

TO ensure smooth conduct of by-elections into two wards on September 18, the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission, LASIEC, weekend trained 51 ad-hoc staff to conduct the polls.

A Group supporting the presidential aspiration of former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd) in 2011, the Campaign Network for Ibrahim Babangida, CNI, weekend in Benin, Edo State, defended the former Head of State in most of the actions he took during his eight years regime.

NIGERIAN youths have resolved to inaugurate a team to monitor and counter identified electoral malpractices at all the polling units in the country in the 2011 general elections.

Deputy Minority Whip of the Senate, Senator Olorunimbe Mamora, AC Lagos East, has asked Nigerians to vote wisely in deciding who becomes the President in the 2011 elections, even as he said that President Goodluck Jonathan’s declaration to contest is in fulfillment of his constitutional rights.