The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said yesterday that its Ambulance Service Scheme rescued 1,554 road accident victims and arrested 1.4 million traffic offenders between January and June.

INDIGENES of Otokutu, Orogun and Isoko communities of Delta State ,recently pledged their support for Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial aspirant, Prof. (Major) Saliba Mukoro. Mukoro promised his teeming followers that he would change Delta State within six months if he becomes the governor of the state.

A political pressure group, the Ndokwa National Youth Movement( NNYM), has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC ) to expedite action on the production of a new voters’ register, adding that since INEC has decided that the current register is not acceptable and that the commission cannot deliver a free and fair election without a new one, the body should be supported.

The end to the on – going indefinite strike embarked upon by the medical doctors under the Lagos State employment may not be in sight as the State Government yesterday said it cannot afford to pay the controversial Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS) as demanded by the doctors.

I don’t do sequels so I won’t consider this piece a sequel to last week’s “The Leader and His People”.

The University of Lagos will hold its 2007/2008 Endowment Scholarship Awards /Partnership Forum on August 17,2010,at the Multipurpose Hall, Akoka.

Nigeria and Ghana have concluded arrangements to hold a joint meeting to discuss bilateral relations between the two countries, scheduled to hold between August 23 and 26, in Abuja .

YOUTHS from the South East geo political zone of the country, yesterday condemned the disruption of theacademic calendar in state owned universities within the zone on account of the ongoing strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.

I was not allowed to talk because I said no to the decision from the beginning when they began to make those analysis. I challenged the decision and I made my position clear. My position is at variance with the communique of that meeting because we agreed before the meeting that there would be no communique because the South East was not there to take a position but to find facts.

Residents of Edepie suburb in the heart of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital were yesterday shocked by the bizarre discovery of the lifeless remains of a day old baby boy in a dustbin.