ACTION Congress, AC, in Anambra State and its governorship candidate in last February 6 gubernatorial election in the state, Dr. Chris Ngige, have called for dissolution of the election petitions tribunal as currently constituted

Attempt to sneak in rejected N6.1 billion SIM card registration fund in the 2010 Nigerian Communication Commission, NCC, Budget almost led to exchange of blows on the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday

Senate President, David Mark and all members of the National Assembly from Benue State yesterday declared their support for President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2011 Presidential elections under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has tentatively fixed the compilation of the new voters’ register for between the last week of October and the first week of November

REACTIVATION of Enugu coal mines: Long before now, much of the economy of Eastern Nigeria was driven by the coal mines at Enugu which not only energized the Oji River Power Station for the energy needs of the area, but also provided employment outlets for the people. Scores of industries at Aba , Nnewi and Onitsha axis, for instance, flourished on account of coal mining.

THE Federal High Court sitting in Awka, yesterday, remanded an Nnewi-based business magnate, Chief Pius Ogbuawa, and 20 others in prison custody over allegation of conspiracy in the kidnap of two Chinese in 2007.

SENIOR Special Assistant to Bayelsa State Governor on Conflict Resolution, Michael Wenibowei, Tuesday evening, escaped death by the whiskers when unknown gunmen attacked his residence.

THE Police High Command, yesterday, canvassed staggered polls, such that those of state governors, senators, House of Representatives members and council chairmen would be rotated on zone by zone basis.

The nation’s leading computer whiz-kids and ICT experts continued brainstorming, yesterday, on ICT solutions to the nation’s electoral system which had been bedevilled in the past by many woes as the annual conference of the Nigerian Computer Society holding in Asaba enters the third day.

DELTA State Government has restated its willingness to partner with the Nigerian Nuclear Regulator Authority, NNRA, as the state is home to a large contingent of operators, using ionising radiation in the oil and gas industry.

The two South-South states of Rivers and Delta are geographically next to each other.This close affinity appears to have rubbed off on the way they administer their schools as they have a pride of place among those states in the country that are excelling in the implementation of the Universal Basic Education programme.

THE same group of ex-militants who stormed Abuja, some weeks ago, to protest their exclusion from the post-amnesty programme, yesterday, renewed their protest in Warri, Delta State.

The 18th International AIDS Conference was held from18 to 23 July, in Vienna, Austria . For the International Labour Organisation, it provided an opportunity to launch the implementation phase of the new international labour standard.

THE new Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, got me worried when he gave the “salvaging” of the Maurice Iwu voters register as an option. In his maiden press conference on Thursday, July 22, 2010, he had hinted that his Commission would have no choice but to attempt a salvage of the old register if the N72 billion required to acquire the machines and logistics for the creation of a credible and computerised electoral register and database was not granted.

Diehard criminals in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, have evolved a new system of perpetrating crime, by clothing themselves in religious wears, clutching the Bible and visit residential houses, pretending to be itinerary preachers only to dispossess their victims of their belongings.