THE police in Abraka, Delta State, yesterday, summoned the national president of the Ighele r’ Urhobo ( youth wing) of the Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, Engineer Avwerosuoghene Okoro, over Monday’s fracas in the community.

NATIONAL leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, suspended all Congresses and Primaries earlier scheduled to commence this week till further notice.

FORMER Deputy Governor of Edo State and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Reverend Peter Obadan, has predicted doom for his party, if the leaders fail to cede the 2012 governorship ticket to the Edo North Senatorial district.

In 1945, the world had just emerged from World War II, totally bruised. The German Reich was virtually bankrupt following the heavy expenses accruing from the war. What should a country do if it was broke?

“We want to thank God that our medical and education works in Nigeria today are second to none. We set the pace for others to follow. Since government took over schools what have they achieved? Standard of education is going down, immorality has become widespread today.

WITH all the noise about the Federal Government’s posture on corruption, there is no doubt that some forms of corruptions are tolerable while others have to be dealt with decisively. Those who claim that the fight against corruption is selective would have a point if we take football as an example.

Suspected armed hoodlums, yesterday, launched attack on the Opokuma country home of the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Local Government and Community Development, Mr. Waripamowei Dudafa, in the Kolokuma-Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

It has been a harsh and suffocating travail. In the years we pushed the project and combed the various US and European Ivory towers, visited the United Nations, prayed in the lush and somber gardens of the world renowned memorials, placarded in solidarity with fellow genocide victims and ran the dangerous streets of the world,

Amidst security concerns over 2011 presidential election and the debate over candidates, former Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Col. Ahmadu Ali, rtd, warned yesterday that Nigerians will chase out of the streets any military adventurist that might want to stage a coup at this critical period of Nigeria’s march to nationhood.

Ahead of the 50th independence anniversary celebration of Nigeria,National President, Non- Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, has threatened to mobilise the leadership of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, for a nationwide industrial action if the Federal Government fails to announce and pay the minimum wage before then

NOBEL Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, and the convener of the Save Nigeria Group, SNG, Pastor Tunde Bakare, yesterday, urged President Goodluck Jonathan to intervene in the crisis in the Ogun House of Assembly

Our desire is to make Adekunle Ajasin University a producer of globally competitive graduates, a 21st century properly called” he affirmed. Prof. Mimiko also mentioned some of his strategic plan to develop the University especially in the area of infrastructure in the next few weeks which will follow in quick succession.

FORMER Vice President and presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, Wednesday, warned that President Goodluck Jonathan’s insistence on running in 2011 will polarize the country.

NIGERIA’S 1999 Constitution (as amended) is alive. The Electoral Act 2010 takes its bearing from it. That notwithstanding some lawyers plead that the Constitution is inchoate in their prayers before the Justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

THE Universal Basic Education Board, UBEB, yesterday, attributed the mass failure in the last NECO examination to lack of basic textbooks.