Former Lagos State governor, and Chairman of the committee working on the manifesto and constitution of the mega party, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, said yesterday that the manifesto and constitution of the proposed mega party is to receive input from all national stakeholders and proponents of a new Nigeria.

GOVERNOR Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday advised lawyers to educate litigants to use Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanism in settling disputes to decongest the courts.

NIGERIAN students, under the umbrella of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), have rejected government’s plan to fully deregulate the downstream sector of the nation’s petroleum industry and called on President Umaru Yar’Adua to avoid civil unrest in the country.

Eyewitness told our reporter that when the cable fell on top of the roof, “one of the neighbours ran out and started shouting ‘come out, come out’, but as soon as the father of the house came out, while carrying one of the children with him, they were instantly electrocuted as he touched the iron burglary proof”.

Governor Olusegun Mimiko has decided to intervene in the crisis that engulfed the Ondo State House of Assembly over the insistence of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP-dominated House not to swear in a newly elected member, Akindele Adeniyi as the governor has scheduled a meeting with the 25 lawmakers.