The legal battle field is being set. Barr. Valentine Emeka Utulu of the Johnson Brant Chambers, counsel to KORA Awards winning Sammie Okposo, has filed a petition to the Scotland First Minister, Alex Salmond for the ‘unlawful arrest’ and unjust treatment reportedly meted out to their client in the Scottish territory.

The President of the Trade Union Congress, Comrade Peter Esele yesterday warned against the postponement of the 2011 elections as being canvassed by some politicians, saying that such calls were misplaced.

FOLLOWING alleged cold response of Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Mr Baba Bolanta, to numerous calls to arrest suspects that caused mayhem, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Oyo State, Senator Lekan Balogun has called on the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ogbonna Onovo to redeploy him to another state.

CAPITAL market operators have expressed divergent opinions on the sack of council members of Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), acting on the powers vested in it by the Investment and Securities Act (ISA) 2007, yesterday, sacked council members of the NSE. It said in a statement that the action was in the best interest of the investing public.

SECURITIES and Exchange Commission, SEC, yesterday, named Emmanuel Ikazobo as the interim Director General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange to replace Professor Ndi Okereke_Onyiuke who was fired, Wednesday, in what the regulator described as move aimed at boosting confidence and reinforcing the “integrity” of the market.