GOVERNOR Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State yesterday inaugurated the N5billion Ore Sunshine Mega City Plaza project to be situated on 153 hectares of land on the Ore-Sagamu expressway under a private-public sector joint partnership with the state.

The problems bedevilling Nigeria as a nation have been attributed to insincerity on the parts of Christians and Muslims in the country “because they have failed to live up to the tenets of their respective faiths”.

AFTER about 11 years of disagreement over the deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry, labour and the Federal Government are set to close ranks as they agreed to set up a committee to work out modalities for implementation of the planned full deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry, with a special focus on measures to cushion its effects on Nigerians.

DE-REGULATION, the public thinks, is another name for price increases without any certainty about improvements in services. While de-regulation has worked with the telecommunications industry, where the issues of power (fuel and energy for industrial, commercial and domestic uses) are concerned, the same factors that made telecommunications a burgeoning success appear to disappear.

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.