While pledging their support to the President, they therefore invited the President to reassure the region by immediately dismissing Dr. Lukman from office.

Sunshine football Club of Akure weekend got off to a shaky start in their WAFU interclub competition campaign, settling for an heartbreaking 3-3 draw with the visiting Liberty professionals of Ghana in a cracker watched by capacity crowd at the Akure township stadium.

Lawmakers and Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), have expressed contradictory stands on relocation of manufacturing industries in the country to neighbouring Ghana.

The Sokoto State Council of Ulamah and Imams has reacted to the demonstration staged by members of Shi’ite Muslims at the National Assembly referring to its earlier letter of March 5, 2008 to President Yar’Adua about the alleged “insurgen-cy and criminal activities of the Shi’ite members in Sokoto”.

Mr Godwin Nyame, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Natural Resources, who disclosed this in Jalingo said that the state government requested the supply of 60,000 tonnes of fertilizer from the Federal Govern-ment, adding, however, that only 21,000 tonnes were supplied.