THE vacuum created on the right flank of the isle seating majority (PDP) senators by the absence of the quintessential Joy of the Senate, Senator Emodi has continued to be felt in many ways since the upper Chamber returned to work from a deserved two-week rest following the historic amendment of the 1999 Constitution.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has sent words of commendation to Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF, following the progress made on polio eradication in the country. The foundation also called on the forum to regularly evaluate and issue updates on their polio efforts in their respective states with a view to ensuring total eradication of the deadly virus.

A Warri based lawyer, Dr Akpo Mudiaga-Odje, says the zoning policy of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, is unconstitutional, null and void.

LEADERS of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, have given the Federal Government a two-month time frame to legalise the new minimum wage, failing which it would not guarantee industrial peace across the country

THE Director of Lagos Business School and former Presidential candidate, Prof. Pat Utomi, weekend, described the raging zoning issue of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as a distraction.

HEADS have begun to roll at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi-Araba, Lagos, in the wake of the unclaimed baby corpses scandal currently rocking the tertiary health institution as five staff of the hospital have been suspended indefinitely.

CCECC’s Deputy Managing Director, Shi Hongbing, in a statement, weekend, blamed the collapse of the culvert on a “design error” committed by an indigenous consulting firm contracted by its client, Lagos Ministry of Works & Infrastructure.

Former United States of America Ambassador Walter Carrington (OFR) is 80.

Former Delta State governorship aspirant on the platform of the defunct Grassroots Democratic Movement, GDM, and now a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Engr. Goodnews Agbi, has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2011 presidential election, stressing that Deltans and other Nigerians should vote for him.

THE Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, has been accused of manipulation and lack of transparency in the administration of the newly introduced Sovereign Debt Instrument (SDI) and the allocation of petroleum products importation to entities without any known facilities