THE senator representing Edo South senatorial district of Edo state, Senator Ehigie Uzamere, has faulted the decision by the Edo State House of Assembly, to reject the copy of the amended constitution sent to State Houses of Assembly by the National Assembly, explaining that they ought to concur with the decision of the National Assembly and not to call a public hearing on the issue.

Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State, yesterday, renewed the call for constitutional amendment that would allow the establishment of state Police, saying it was the only way out of the recurring crises in states across the country.

“I have spoken to Mr. Timi Alaibe this morning and I have no fears about job for the boys after training, as the late President Umaru Yar’Adua in his meeting with us (ex-militant leaders) before his death said the Federal Government’s plan was to remove the boys from the creeks, train them and give them jobs”.

The impeached Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, Peremobowei Ebebi, yesterday initiated a legal action before a Federal high court sitting in Abuja to secure an order declaring as alive and subsisting his constitutional immunity against arrest, detention and prosecution pending determination of his two separate suits challenging the validity of his impeachment.

The Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, has blamed the recent oil spillage at Ikarama community in Yenagoa local government area of Bayelsa State on sabotage

A nation divided right across with an imaginary battle line drawn between them. Whoever emerges as the president of this country under such arrangement will not be a Nigeria leader. He will be a regional leader.

SINCE the commencement of the Mallam Lamido Sanusi led Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN reforms in the banking industry in August last year, the sector has been in the eye of the storm for among others, industrial crisis as employees until recently, were being retrenched without due process.

The need to provide conducive environment for learning in the face of dilapidated and decaying infrastructure in public schools informed the decision of Etisalat, an emerging communication company in Nigeria to construct new classroom blocks in schools it adopted in Lagos State.

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, stated that himself, Professor Attahiru Jega, INEC Chairman and Professor Barth Nnaji, Special Adviser on Power, had a rare opportunity of changing the face of public governance in the country before the expiration of the present government on May 29, 2011.

A LARGE number of representatives of reputable publishing outfits in Nigeria turned up for the stakeholders’ forum for the development of textbooks in line with the new Senior Secondary Education Curriculum (SSEC) which held in Lagos on Thursday last week at the behest of the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council.

TRUTH is gradually emerging on how the Anambra governorship election was won and lost. The upshot from the tribunal shows that some of the candidates currently seeking redress there have neither the reputation nor the competence needed to lead a state like Anambra.

For long motorists and commuters complained bitterly, albeit impotently, about the many pot-holes that dotted almost every stretch of some roads in Port Harcourt metropolis and environs. Observers attributed the development to the upsurge in the number of cars plying the roads following a sharp rise in population then. With this, road congestion suddenly became a regular feature leading, in experts’ estimation, to the sudden collapse of road infrastructure.

LAST August the Central Bank of Nigeria sacked the management of five banks for running their banks aground. They were charged to court for various offences. The cases are still being prosecuted.

Post-UTME is still necessary. For a private university like Babcock, we’ve been conducting screening exercise for admission from day one. Having five credits, scoring above 200 not enough for admission. There should be character, being fit, have the desire to learn and so on.15, 2010.

The Governor of Delta state, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has called on teachers to show greater dedication in carrying out their duties.