Lagos State Chief Judge, Justice Inumidun Akande, has accused some Magistrates within the state judiciary of attending conferences and seminars without official approvals from her office.

FOUR months after his mother, Mrs. Grace Ilugbekhai, was abducted from her home and taken to an unknown destination by gunmen on April 15, a Lagos-based Structural Engineer, Mr Samuel Ilugbekhai, and his siblings have appealed to the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ogbonna Onovo and security agencies in the country to come to the aid of the family by fishing out those behind the abduction.

ELDER states-man and pioneer Governor of Edo State, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has advised the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, to put measures in place that would assist him to compile a new voters’ register for future elections in the country, instead of depending on ad hoc staff.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday challenged the applications by former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Fin Bank Plc, Mr. Okey Nwosu and three other directors of the bank standing trial for corrupt charges before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, praying the court to vary their bail conditions.

Both men claim to be the Visitor to the university, and in that capacity, appointed two different Vice Chancellors for the same institution. While Akala sacked the incumbent VC, Professor Benjamin Adeleke five months before the expiration of his tenure and imposed his own VC, Oyinlola sacked the Governing Board And imposed the Deputy VC, Professor J O Ojediran , in practical terms, as sole administrator.

IT was another day of intense debate for and against whether President Goodluck Jonathan should contest in next year’s Presidential polls.

FORMER Vice President, Dr Alex Ekwueme, has called on thec Federal Government to, as a matter of urgency, convert the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State, to a University of Technology.

NATIONAL Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, yesterday, said the immediate priority of the commission was to register Nigerians within the country to vote in the 2011 elections.

SINCE the late Musa YarAdua passed away, the voices against zoning have been swarming the political conclave with fierce and indeed frightening venom, bubbling to the surface of our ugly sectarian tendencies, dragging the polity along their dangerous tracts.

POLICE authorities should worry about acts of indiscipline, corruption and criminality in the Force. The mass posting of police officers to numerous roadblocks, especially in the South East and South South has not deterred violent crimes like kidnapping and armed robbery.

DELTA State Commissioner for Environment, Dr. Bello Orubebe, said, yesterday, that he was relocating from Asaba to Warri temporarily, following a massive oil spillage, which occurred within the Chevron Nigeria Limited yard in Ekpan, Uvwie Lcoal Government Area of the state.

THE political crisis rocking Abia State deepened Monday when the State House of Assembly descended on two of its members who did not participate in the impeachment of the former deputy governor of the state, Comrade Chris Akomas, as the duo were punished

FISHER MEN in Bonny under the aegis of Organisation of Fishermen Seafood Dealers and Farmers in Niger Delta have said they will not take it lightly, if they are shut out in a reported compensation programme being proposed by Shell for those affected by oil spill in Abalamabie and Oloma communities.

MANAGEMENT of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, yesterday in Benin, Edo State, said beneficiaries of the NDDC Technical Aid Corps, NTAC, scheme will be paid a monthly allowance of N30, 000 each for the next two years.

FORMER Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Intercontinental Bank PLC, Dr. Erastus Akingbola, voluntarily returned to the country, yesterday, to answer questions and allegations levelled against him by the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.