As part of its mandate to facilitate the planning and implementation of policies based on proper data collection and analysis, Rivers State Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning has commenced a pilot enumeration scheme.

IT’S like every new day in Nigeria comes with new surprises, each tending to outdo the previous day’s in its degree of absurdity. When you think you’ve seen and heard it all, our politicians spring more bizarre surprises on us, saying to us ‘you ain’t seen nothing yet!’

THE current peace effort in the warring communities of Oruku and Umuode in Enugu State has taken a new turn as a mobile policeman in the team of security operatives deployed to restore peace to the area, has reportedly shot dead a police constable, following a minor misunderstanding over food.

Acting President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, commissioned the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Barracks built in honour of the late Major General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua.

The Federal Government yesterday admitted, afresh, before the Supreme Court, that its operation of the Federation Account between 2004 and 2007 was largely illegal, being not in conformity with the provisions of the 1999 constitution.