THE Oyo State Police Command has arrested some armed robbery suspects who allegedly specialize in robbing cattle rearers.

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, yesterday, warned that the spread of infectious diseases in the country might increase in the nearest future, unless strategies aimed at dissuading unwholesome injection practices among Nigerians were evolved.

FOLLOWING his resolve to fight poverty in the state, Governor Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday, launched Poverty Eradication Lottery for the people of the state, to empower unemployed youths and artisans.

IJAW legislators have been urged to emulate the representative of Bomadi/Patani Federal Constituency in the National Assembly, Mr. Nicholas Mutu, who recently awarded scholarship to science students in secondary schools in the constituency.

If my memory serves me right, the book was about a young Nigerian job-seeker in Lagos. Each morning he leaves his humble home in search of a non-existent job, and his close observations of the struggles of daily living on the streets of Lagos constitute the backbone of the book’s narrative.

GOVERNOR of Central Bank, Lamido Sanusi, said, yesterday, that the bank had received bids for four of the nine banks it rescued in a N 620 billion bailout last year.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has charged Christians and Muslims to unite in the fight against retrogressive forces to enable Nigeria move forward and take its rightful place in the comity of nations.

A FEW weeks ago, Prof. Ben. Nwabueze, constitutional lawyer, Senior Advocate of Nigeria , former Minister of Education, statesman etc, called for a violent revolution in Nigeria . It is not the first time he has done so.

NOTHING in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security.

CHURCHES in Nigeria have been urged to key into the anti-graft war in the country by rebuking those with ill gotten wealth in their midst.

SOUTH East geo-political zone, yesterday, unanimously adopted President Goodluck Jonathan as the presidential candidate for 2011 at the South-East Political Summit attended by prominent Igbo leaders and leaders of various groups from the five states in the zone.

THE leadership of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in Abia State has alerted its members of the circulation of fake party membership cards in the state, and warned both the old and new members to ensure that they were issued with genuine cards.

Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has urged practising journalists in the country to adhere strictly to the social responsibity theory of the press.

FIVE months to general elections proposed for January, the most important item on the agenda of politicians is zoning, a political arrangement of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that would reserve the plum job, the Presidency, for a part of the country, to the exclusion of others.

FORMER Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, said yesterday that his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, remained legal and valid consequent upon the same waiver given to Dr Okwesilieze Nwodo, who recently returned to the PDP to take up the party’s chairmanship position.