Judiciary workers in the South East zone have vowed not to return to work until Governors in the zone implement or enter into agreement with them to pay the Consolidated Judiciary Salary Structure, CONJUSS and scheme of service as provided in the 1999 constitution currently being paid by other states in the country.

A Kwale-based legal practitioner, Mr. Nelson Enumah has filed a motion seeking for an order of court to commit his judgment debtors, Delta Commissioner of Police and three other police officers to prison for failing to comply with an order of the court ordering them, Police, to pay him N.2m damages as well as returning his seized car.

DISTURBED by its loss in the February 6 gubernatorial election in Anambra State, the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, South East Zone yesterday, warned that it would no longer tolerate any act of indiscipline by its members in all the five states of the zone, especially as the party strategises for the 2011 general elections.

Congress had long before prohibited Black militia, and administrative rules prohibited Black service in the standing forces. But in the War of 1812, Captain Perry’s crews could not be filled without arming Blacks. “Veterans” of the war were entitled (apparently by Congressional act) to land bounties on the public domain.

NIGERIA’S Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Alhaji Abdullah Aminchi said, yesterday, that it was doctors attending to ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua who had denied Nigerians access to their President in his Jeddah hospital and not Saudi authorities. He said he visited the President last Saturday and that “he is really feeling better now.”

THE Action Congress, AC, in Oyo State has condemned alleged unfair display of might against some innocent handicapped civil servants who were relieved of their jobs by Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala.

He should put the power vested in his office to good and immediate use. If other Nigerians, including members of the National Assembly, governors and traditional rulers have tried to no avail to reach the President and know something of his health, it should not be said that the Acting President equally failed.

Austin Jay Jay Okocha’s coach during his playing days at Eintracht Frankfurt, Dragoslav Stepanovic has said that he was disappointed that the Nigeria Football Federation did not invite him for interview, despite sending his credentials.

Senate President, David Mark, over the weekend expressed displeasure over the unresolved search for the Eagles’ Technical Adviser with less than four months to the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa.

Fifa is afraid that players at the World Cup could use undetectable stimulants derived from traditional African medicines that aren’t currently banned substances.

GOVERNOR Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State, Are Musulumi of Yoruba land, Alhaji Azeez Arisekola Alao and Senator Lekan Balogun have variously described the death major sports financier and industrialist, Chief Nathaniel Idowu as a huge loss to the state. He died on Saturday in a London hospital.

Warri Wolves officials are hoping for a generous win over Olympic Athletico of Burundi in this weekend’s CAF Confederations Cup second leg encounter, after the Wolves’ team recorded a 3-1 win over visiting Kwara United in last Sunday’s Globacom League match at the Warri Township Stadium.

THE Minister of Petroleum Resources, Dr. Rilwanu Lukman has reiterated the commitment of the Federal Government to stop gas flaring at the nation’s 187 oil flow stations through the vehicle of the accelerated Gas Development Projects.

Swift intervention of security operatives and the Emir of Kazaure Alhaji Najeeb Hussaini Adamu, yesterday averted what could have turned into a bloody riot in Kazaure town in Jigawa state, following the misunderstanding between a driver and a police traffic warders which led to the untimely death of the driver, leaving some churches torched .

MANAGEMENT of the Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF) has urged its staff and members of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) to prime itself for the challenges that will come with the deregulation of the downstream sub-sector of the oil industry.