MEN of Delta State police command are currently investigating the circumstances that led to the killing of two able-bodied men in Asaba, who were later buried in shallow graves.

At about 11:25 am, last Monday, Chief Magistrate Zainab Bashir of the Federal Capital Territory Magistrate Court, Zone 6, Wuse, Abuja, ordered out all journalists in her court room. That was after sounding a warning that never again should any journalist come to her court to cover proceedings without clear permission from her.

World Cup-bound Green Eagles were May 20th given a presidential send off party at the Villa with a wish from the president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.

THE Benin monarch, Oba Erediauwa, has donated a large parcel of land for the building of the multi-billion naira proposed Benin Cultural Heritage Complex.

A Lagos based legal practitioner, Chief Ike Chinwuba who was barred from professional practice by the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association over professional misconduct has taken his case to the Supreme Court for redress.

Former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari has been directed by an Ikeja High court to testify in a suit he allegedly instituted seven years ago against a medical doctor, Mrs. A. G. Taiwo over a property that belonged to Abubakar Umar (Walin Bauchi).

The Acting Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prince Solomon Shoyebi in his first address to the nation promised to restore credibility to the electoral process. He asserted that the major task before the electoral commission is the full sensitization of the electoral process, and the purification of the voter’s register.

Honourable Uche Anya, is chairman of Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation, NTDC. He is a former minority leader in Enugu State House of Assembly during the administration of former governor Chimaroke Nnamani. In this interview with Vanguard he spoke on PDP zoning arrangement, the choice of Vice President Sambo, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor’s resignation, constitution amendment’s and the activities of NTDC. Excerpts:

Babatunde Fashola, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Governor of Lagos State, is a success story. The indices of this success is so glaring that even the blind would see it. The deaf would hear it. Just everyone, except perhaps, a group of hired jobbers. A particular group of upstarts’ that go by the name “The True Face Of Lagos”.

Governor Godswill Akpabio is the governor of Akwa Ibom State. In this interview he spoke on his government in the last three years, his achievements, his relationship with former governor Victor Attah whom he described as father to all, 2011 elections and PDP. Excerpts:

Beijing 2008 silver medalist, Olufemi Ajilore said yesterday that it was heart breaking missing out on the South Africa 2010 World Cup.

Alhaji Ali Wakili, is the immediate past Commandant of Nigerian Custom Training School, Kano. His entrant into partisan politics was welcomed by network of friends scattered across the country. He is a politician with positive thinking on how best to raise the lifestyle of an ordinary Nigerian.

Deputy Governor of Kaduna state, Mr. Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa has been sworn-in as governor. He was sworn-in this afternoon at the General Usman Katsina House (State House), Kawo, by the state Chief Judge, Justice Rahila Cudjoe, at an elaborate ceremony witnessed by thousands of people, including former governors of the state, Senators Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi, Calb Zegi and Isaiah Balat among others .

AN explosion rocked the home of the Executive Director of Finance and Administration, Niger-Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Pastor Power Aginighan at the Delta Steel Company (DSC) housing estate in Warri, Delta state on Wednesday night.

A Federal high court sitting in Abuja today revoked a 6-month old bail granted the Chairman of Police Equipment Foundation (PEF), Chief Kenny Martins and sent him back to Kuje prisons.