Three businessmen appeared before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court in Lagos yesterday for allegedly importing 100,000 cartridges and 55 rounds of live ammunition illegally.

IN 1998, former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida,along with other retired military hawks facilitated the release of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo from prison after the demise of then Head of State, the late General Sani Abacha.

The Lagos State Police Command, in conjunction with National Communication Commission (NCC) and relevant GSM/Internet service providers have commenced investigation into the false alarm raised by some faceless individuals about occurrence of violent crimes within Lagos metropolis, with a view to bringing those involved to book.

I think President Goodluck Jonathan should look into this and he should try to salvage what is left of our banking sector and put in proper reforms, not this charade of reform that we are seeing.

BENEFICIARIES of the philanthropic gestures of former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, who now exhibit greed and ingratitude should expect the wrath of God Almighty.

VICE President Namadi Sambo yesterday reminded politicians that politics is not a do-or-die affairs but an avenue for the marketing of ideas and beliefs for national development.

Ogbuawa and the 20 others who claim to be members of Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) are facing trial for allegedly abducting Mr. Niu Quijan and Shey Feng at Nnewi and took them to Ekoli Edda in Ebonyi State where one of them died.

VICE President Namadi Sambo said yesterday that the first implementation plan of four years for the country’s Vision 20:2020 would gulp a total of N32 trillion.

Former Senate President, Chief Ameh Ebute and one-time Federal Commissioner of Information, Chief Edwin Clark, have started mobilising minority ethnic groups in Nigeria to vote for President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011.

As the debate on zoning and rotation of public offices rages in the political arena, the fate of former Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, Deputy National Chairman, Chief Olabode George, who was jailed alongside five other former members of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Board of Directors, which he once led, continues to generate controversy over the manner in which they were prosecuted and convicted by a Lagos High Court.

ECONOMIC and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, secured a court order to enable it keep former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Mr. Erastus Akingbola, in custody for up to two weeks. The order foreclosed an early administrative bail for the embattled former bank boss

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has raised an alarm on how some state governors manipulated local government chairmen in their states to siphon public funds through the implementation of joint accounts by executing bogus projects

STRIKING lecturers of Abia State University, Uturu, have vowed not to suspend their strike, saying the national leadership of other unions have also directed their members to join in the strike.

Governor Godswill Akpabio of AkwaIbom State, has moved the battle on the need for Nigerians to support and vote for the candidature of President Goodluck Jonathan, if he decides to contest in 2011 to London, describing it as part of the on-going amnesty granted the region by late President Umaru Yar’Adua.

IT was drama at the Edo State Ministry of Education, Iyaro, Benin City, yesterday, as a judgment creditor, barricaded the entrance to the Ministry, preventing people form going in or coming out.