BASED on what his constituents described as effective representation, Senate Committee Chairman on Aviation, Senator Anyim Ude, has come under pressures by a coalition of youth organizations in his constituency to seek re-election for a second term in 2011 general elections.

The Senator representing Delta North Senatorial district of Delta State, Senator Patrick Osakwe, has paid a visit to the chairman of the Delta State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Peter Nwaoboshi.

Information Communications Technology Ministers, senior government officials, regulatory agency heads, and international ICT experts, who spoke at the 8th annual forum and the 50th council meeting of the Common Wealth Telecommunications Organization, (CTO) being held in Sri Lanka rose up from the saying that unless commonwealth nations take faster measures to ensure more rapid deployment of broadband and access to it by a larger percentage of their citizens, national development may be far fetched.

THE Burutu Youth Political Forum, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, to take immediate steps to remove the Delta State INEC Director of Operations, Mr. Chris Nwosu, for allegedly aiding and abetting the massive rigging of the 2007 elections in Burutu Local Government Area of the state.

The Rural Electrification Agency in Cross River State has commenced electrification projects in 77 sites in 102 communities in the state.