TWO principal officers of Udenu Local Government Area in Enugu State, have been detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over an indebtedness of about N66 million to Skye Bank Plc by the immediate past administration of Dr. Ignatius Eze.

Action Congress, AC, governorship candidate in Ebonyi State in the 2007 general elections, Chief Obasi Obasi, has said that Nigeria needs dynamic young men and women holding executive positions at all level of governance, especially at the centre.

Imo State Government has lamented that although the Nigeria/Biafra war ended 40 years ago, there are still vestiges of the war as exemplified by the landmines, unexploded ordinances and explosive remnants in several places in the South East and South-South.

CONCERNED eminent stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ebonyi State, comprising former party chairmen in the state, Obinna Ogba, Mr. Idu Igarawey and other former office holders during the eight years governance of Dr. Sam Egwu, have called on the national leadership of the party to intervene in the brewing factionalization of the party, rather than play the ostrich.

LIVES, so many, have been lost in sectional and sectarian clashes in Plateau State since last January. In the midst of these, all we get are squabbles about the figures, about shameless loopholes in our security and intelligence gathering methods and the obvious admission of governments that they would do nothing about the deaths of innocent women, children, the aged and some men, whose only crime could be that they live in a country where lives mean nothing.

A LAGOS High Court sitting in Ikorodu, yesterday, barred the panel put up by the state House of Assembly from investigating the alleged financial impropriety levelled at the state Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, SAN.

IF everything goes as planned, the 2011 polls will begin with the National Assembly elections on January 8, while the Presidential elections will hold on January 22.

Enugu—The Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT, has vowed to expel any student involved in the sale of books, hand-outs and other forms of extortion. Professor Chidi Ugwu, the Acting Vice Chancellor of the university, gave the warning in a statement in Enugu, yesterday. “Similarly, dismissal from service awaits any staff of ESUT, […]

Chris Olakpe is the Commissioner of Police in-charge of Anti-bomb Disposal Unit. In this interview with Crime Alert, he spoke about his new assignment, series of bomb blasts in the country, the challenges and sundry issues.

THE Governors Forum, an exclusive club of the thirty six state governors is emerging as the new power centre driving the politics of the country. Presenting itself as a patriotic, supra national and non politically partisan body, it makes magisterial pronouncements which to governors carries the weight of law.

APPARENTLY not interested in further briefing on how the Vanguard Post-Amnesty Dialogue in Warri was abruptly terminated following the detonation of two bombs near the venue of the event, Acting President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, pointedly asked his representative to the Dialogue and Minister of Niger-Delta Affairs, Obong Ufot Ekaette: “Minister, how is Warri?”

Baring last minute change of mind, Acting President Goodluck Jonathan would drop some ministers today.

MEMBERS of the Nigeria Union of Teachers in Oyo State may reject their March salary, following alleged forceful deduction of 2.5 per cent for the National Housing Fund by the state government.

FAMILY of late staff of the Akure Local Government area of Ondo State who was shot dead by a mobile policeman last week has pleaded with the police authorities in the state to release the corpse of their son, Dayo Adeola for burial.

Indigenes of Ekiti State, under the aegis of Ekiti Panupo Forum have called for resolution of all electoral disputes before the commencement of the 2011 elections.