THE newly elected House of Assembly member for Akoko Edo constituency 1 of Edo state, Mr Kabiru Adjoto, was yesterday sworn in by the Speaker, Mr Zakawanu Garuba.

IMMEDIATE past deputy governor of Edo state, Mr Lucky Imasuen, yesterday admonished Governor Adams Oshimhole to complete the projects which were initiated by Professor Oserhiemen Osunbor’s administration, saying that abandoning the projects and embarking on new ones was wasteful.

PRESIDENT Umaru Yar’Adua has ordered a full scale investigation into the alleged role played by the sacked Director-General of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency, NIA, Mr Enaruna Emmanuel Imohe, in the issuance of a Federal Government circular currently making the round in Nigeria’s missions abroad that no mission should entertain any inquiry from the duo of former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai and former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu.

LAST weekend, I had cause to sit at a roundtable of sorts with a bunch of passionate Nigerian youths. The word ‘youth’, of course, is used rather loosely here as we have the national tendency to do. We appear youthful in these parts much longer than they do in other places.

A DELTA State High Court sitting in Warri, Tuesday, upheld the decision of the Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse 11, to appoint Mr. David Skinn as the authentic Chairman of Yonwuren and Agbeje families’ working committee and youth executive body of war-torn Ugbuwangue community in Warri South local government area.