THE Minister of Transport, Alhaji Yusuf Suleiman, is today leading the presidential taskforce constituted to look into problems leading to the high cost of clearing goods in the ports, to Lagos, to combat multiplicity of security agents struggling to perform the functions of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS.

Imo State House of Assembly has named the newly constructed and dualised Port-Harcourt/Concorde-World Bank-Onitsha Road Junction after late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.

EDJEBA community, which plays host to the College of Education, Warri in Delta State has raised an alarm, that lecturers have turned the institution into a “war zone” over who becomes the substantive Provost.

ORGANISED Labour in the nation’s food and beverage industry, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan, to ban the importation of generators into the country as part of his government’s effort to enure stable power supply in the country.

IF not for the timely intervention of policemen, the traditional ruler of Akure, Deji of Akureland, Oba Oludare Adepoju would have been lynched as he threw caution into the air by engaging in a free-for- all with one of his wives (Olori Bolanle) on the street of Akure.

MINISTER of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Senator Bala Mohammed disclosed yesterday that arrangements have been concluded to ban smoking in Aso Rock Presidential Villa, the National Assembly Complex, the Federal Secretariat Complex, his office and other public buildings, as well as parks in the nation’s capital city.

About 50,000 federal workers may be retrenched from service in the next three months in line with the on-going reform in the Federal Civil Service.

The Save Nigeria Group, SNG, yesterday, expressed concern that the country might not attain its dream of free and fair election in 2011 because President Goodluck Jonathan has not shown any commitment to give Nigerians genuine electoral reforms.

Former Eagles defender, Taribo West said the presence of Joseph Yobo and Danny Shittu will boost the team defence at the World Cup.

Eagles striker Osaze Peter Odemwingie has been psyching up himself with the exploits of the 1994 and 1998 class of Eagles.

The Lagos State House of Assembly has dismissed speculations that it was planning to stop carrying out deliberations on Thursdays in Yoruba Language.

AS the Peoples’ Democratic Peoples Party, PDP, prepares to pick a successor to the out-gone National Chairman, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor, there are very strong indications that a majority of leaders of the party are also looking in the direction of the Chairman, PDP Elders’ Reconciliatory Committee, Senator Ike Nwachukwu.

Former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, yesterday, urged the Federal Government to name a public institution after the late winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Basorun Moshood Abiola, to immortalise him.

THE Save Nigeria Group, SNG, yesterday, expressed concern that the country might not attain its dreamed free and fair election in 2011 because President Goodluck Jonathan did not show any sign of commitment to give Nigerians genuine electoral reforms.

ABOUT 15 persons were reportedly injured and five houses burnt as youths, weekend, unleashed mayhem on Egbebiri community in the Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State over alleged acquisition of land for a proposed project in the area.