THE over 15 months unending Ezza/Ezillo communal war in Isihelu Local Government Area of Ebonyi state, weekend, claimed no fewer than three lives, when an Ezillo man allegedly went to remove the roof of a house where the Ezza people evacuated.

With the assistance of members of the Anambra State Traffic Agency (ASTA), the offenders were arraigned before the Anambra State Environmental Protection Agency (ANSEPA) magistrate courts sitting in the three cities while the sanitation exercise lasted.

WORRIED by the increasing wave of armed robbery and kidnapping, which has seriously threatened the economy of the South Eastern states of the country, Governors and security chiefs in the zone yesterday, met in Enugu to seek ways of tackling the ugly development.

The party, which accused the ruling PDP of abusing its incumbency power by encouraging a do-or-die brand of politics that is morally bankrupt and bereft of principles, warned that the trend must be checked to avert a situation where Nigeria becomes a one-party state.

A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has awarded a penalty of N20 million as damages against some officials of the Lagos State government for wrongful detention, beating one Alhaji Adisa Adewale and the demolition of his property in Shangisa/Magodo area of the state.

The assassination came on a day the Federal Government announced the appointment of Ogbonnaya Onovo, as the nation’s Inspector-General of Police (IGP) shows the enormous task before the new Police helmsman.

The call was made, weekend, by the Ansar-Ud-Deen Youth Association of Nigeria, Lagos Branch during a press conference to mark this year’s Youth Week with the theme: “(Gross) Multiplying diverts you” aimed at raising fund for the youth empowerment project.

The Deputy Chairman House of Representatives committee on Drugs, Narcotics and Financial Crimes Mr. Bassey Etim has cautioned against the impeachment of President Umaru Yar’Adua by the National assembly, saying doing so would still not lead to full implementa-tion of the 2009 Appropria-tion Act.

Chairman of the Lagos Zone of PENGASSAN, Comrade Folorunso Oginni, told Vanguard that the management had provoked the workers to the limit of their patience and vowed that should the management continue to play pranks with the future of workers, the leadership of PENGASSAN would have no order choice than to direct the workers to shut down all operations both down and upstream until the matter is resolved.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, replied the letter earlier written to him by President Umaru Yar’Ádua to revert to 20 Local Government Areas, saying it is impossible since the Local Council Development Areas were created by law of the state’s House of Assembly.