The nation’s major sea port of Apapa and Tin Can Island are critically endangered.
This new danger does not arise as a result of militants’ action, but due to lack of constructive reasoning, planning and execution of sensitive projects, necessary for Apapa and Tin Can Island Ports to function effectively.

The robbery incident at Nnewi prevented many people, including Enugu State Governor, Mr. Sullivan Chime and Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu from attending the funeral in Nnewi.

In a statement signed by its chairman,Chief Patrick Bigha, made available to Saturday Vanguard in Benin City , it alleged that some youths in the state had been recruited to carry out the mission and that some of the victims were being threatened through phone calls and text messages.

National Planning Minister, Dr. Shamsudeen Usman who made the remark at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island venue of a Special Breakfast Meeting hosted by Business Day, declared, “Lagos State has set the example of a kind of action that will take Nigeria into improving the overall competitiveness in the country”.

His election was declared null and void following the appeal filed by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Okun Obiremi that the election that ushered him into the House was fraught with irregularities which contravened the Electoral Act, 2006.

Earlier, the NUC through its Deputy Executive Secretary, Professor Ignatius Uvah told the Senate Committee that, the commission had uncovered about 45 ilegal universities operating across the country.

The Governors’ forum noted the Reforms in the Petroleum Sector especially the Petroleum Industry Bill currently under consideration by the National Assembly.

Chief Akeredolu, who spoke at the launch of ‘Easy Law: Digital Rules of Court’ at the Institute of Advance Legal Studies, University of Lagos, said that the trend in the legal profession today dictates that all the rules are better unified, so that legal practitioners in the country will use one rule, instead of the different rules presently in operation in all the states of the federation.

Igwe, the House of Representatives Committee chairman on Rural Development,who was among those previously detained with Ndudi Elumelu over the N5.2m rural electrification scam may be flown abroad according to a family source who confirmed that Igwe was rushed to the Intensive Care Unit of a Neurosurgery hospital in Enugu shortly after the attack last week Thursday where he underwent the surgery and has been receiving treatment.

Nine directors of the commission charged with Dr Olagunju for alleged complicity were also sent to prison.
That was after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned them yesterday for conspiring with one another to perpetrate fraud involving N278million in the commission.

Onovo promised that he would continue from where his predecessor, Okiro stopped, pointing out that “we will ensure we have a stable and secure society with crime brought down to the barest minimum by initiating new crime fighting strategies and employing our greatest assets, manpower through well motivated measures.”

The founding fathers did not give any attention to the issue of how the country would be governed after independence. All the attention was focused on how to get the British colonialists out of the country and to start a process of self governance.

A Presidency source who was contacted by Vanguard said he was not aware of any discussion between President Yar’Adua and the governors on the matter but added, “The President would naturally be concerned but I don’t know what he has done about it”.

Uba, the self-styled PDP godfather in Anambra state was alleged to have detained, manhandled and summarily tried the police inspector, Mr. Nicholas Ossai in the front of his subordinates for allegedly allowing a police constable in his house to travel for a burial without his [Uba’s] approval.

It is another weekend and a great opportunity to dress down. Picking something to wear for the weekend shouldn’t be a herculean task. The idea of dressing down is to wear something that shouldn’t cause a headache to put together.