WITH recent clean bill of health accorded the Nigerian government by the United States for her inimitable fight against illicit trafficking in hard drugs, the National Drug Law Enforcement agency, NDLEA seemed to have resolved to fight drug traffickers and barons to a standstill, in spite of the various mode of concealment.

OVER N200 million has been recovered by the Federal Capital Territory Police Command on behalf of banks and other financial institutions from fraudulent persons who either presented fake dud cheques or tried to deceive these financial institutions after securing one form of loan or the other.

So important have flags grown in the position they hold as portrayals of the spirit of nations, and in their position as fixtures in the psyche of the people, that special rituals and observances are accorded them in various nations.

They argued that several litigations could follow the conduct of elections and these litigations are meant to be concluded before the swearing-in of the President and governors and shifting the conduct of elections could affect the handover date and so, may require constitutional amendment which could cost more time. But Chekwas Okorie, Godswill Nnaji and Bashir Tofa think otherwise.

Most people these days spend more time at work that they spend in their homes. Women spend more time with their co-workers than with their friends and family, and today, many women travel out of station with other co-workers.

The big question however is whether the National Assembly will be able and willing to do this within the shortest possible time in the next couple of weeks. If it can, good enough; but if it cannot because of the process involved in constitutional amendment, then we have to accept the inevitable; that May 29th handover date would be impossible.

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For a start, some of the aspirants, it was learnt will send emissaries on Monday to Owerri, the Imo State Capital. Their mission: To convince the Igbo to back their aspiration.

LAST Saturday’s declaration for the 2011 Presidential race by President Goodluck Jonathan and his Vice, Architect Namadi Sambo, may further embolden members of the Federal Cabinet, interested in running for elective offices to quit government.

GOING by current arrangements, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, cannot conduct voters’ registration until late November or early December, Saturday Vanguard can authoritatively report