An attempt by the revenge coup perpetrators to justify the killing of General Aguiyi-Ironsi by linking him with the January 15 failed coup is not accepted by Peter Enahoro’s account. He says that the General was in fact marked down for elimination by If eajuna and that one man that could have exonerated Aguiyi-Ironsi was the Inspector-General of Police, the late Alhaji Kam Salem who the author says telephoned the military commander to inform him that the police were reporting usual troop movements in Lagos.

It is said that the Special Adviser on Information and Strategic to the Lagos State Government, Mr. Segun Ayobolu, voluntarily withdrew his services on grounds of ill-health earlier this week. It warms the cockles of my heart that he is a kindred spirit, in the sense that he runs a backpage column every month in the Alausa Alert newspaper.

The civil war ended close to 40 years ago and it is sad to realize that we still have landmines, explosives, and all manner of bombs still littering the landscapes in the whole of the South East. The matter is made worse now, not just for the fact that these explosives are there but the fact that even the ones that have been recovered have not been moved out and destroyed

THE Aaron team, a group of negotiators, led by the former Chief of General Staff , Vice Admiral Okhai Mike Akhigbe (rtd), set up by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) to dialogue with the Federal Government with a view to bringing the Niger-Delta crisis to an acceptable end has called for suggestions and advice from Niger-Deltans, Nigerians and friends of Nigeria towards proper execution of the assignment.

There is arguably none in the corridors of power today that may have endured as long as the President of the Senate, Senator (Brig. Gen.) David Mark.

PRESIDING Judge of the Federal High Court Asaba, Justice Marcel Awokulehin, yesterday adjourned ruling again, making it the fourth time on the application by the immediate past governor of Delta state, Chief James Ibori seeking to quash the charges filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)against him.

The Soludo campaign organization yesterday described as welcome development the yesterday Abuja court of Appeal ruling restraining the Peoples Democratic Party Candidate for the 2010 governorship election in Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Soludo from further carrying out any electioneering campaign activities pending the hearing of the substantive suit of the earlier matter filed against him.