Two former governors have expressed mixed feelings over the time-table for next year’s general elections released yesterday by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Lawmakersin Anambra State House of Assembly yesterday rejected the use of old voters register for the conduct of the December 4 local government election as announced by the state Indepedent Electoral Commission, ANSIEC.

The World Igbo Congress, WIC, has risen from its summit in New Jersey, U.S.A, with a resolution not to endorse any presidential candidate for the 2011 elections until the preponderance of Igbo agree on the modalities for such endorsement.

NO fewer than 50 students of the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State, belonging to five notorious cult groups in the institution, yesterday denounced their membership and destroyed the instruments with which the groups were identified .

No fewer than 14 loyalists of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, including the organization’s National Director of Information, Comrade Uchenna Madu, have been arrested by a combined team of police and soldiers in Ebonyi State.

FORMER Minister of Transport, Dr. Abiye Sekibo, has criticised the Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi for what he described as his (Amaechi’s) attempt to deceive Nigerians and Rivers people in particular at the recent state’s Summit on Information and Communication.

Explosion from an under- ground cable, yesterday, rocked the entire Jakande Estate in Oke-Afa, Isolo area of Lagos, killing a motorcyclist and injuring others.

Governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kogi State, Ambassador Yusuf Abubakar, yesterday, vowed to end the age-long crisis that has ravaged the state.

MINISTER of Information, Prof. Dora Akunyili, yesterday in Asaba, said that the Delta State has taken the leading position towards embracing the Rebranding Nigeria Project, just as the Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan called for the prosecution of writers of frivolous petitions to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and other security agencies in the spirit of the on-going rebranding effort.

The delay by the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, management in approving the re-designed N14 billion Koko-Oghoye Road project in Delta State, three months after submission by the company handling the project, has been blamed for the grounding of the project.