FORMER Military President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida said yesterday that the release of Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi in far away Saudi Arabia will further help cement and sustain the existing relationship between the government of Nigeria and that of Saudi Arabia.

The Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Timipre Sylva, yesterday dismissed as misplaced, claims by some politicians in the state that his administration had plotted to deceive President Goodlcuk Jonathan through the listing of already commissioned projects for commissioning during the proposed Presidential visit to the state.

Tertiary education may collapse at anytime from now in Lagos State as the academic and non-academic unions in all the institutions of higher learning have declared trade dispute over non-implementation of negotiated agreements reached with government.

THE rigging of elections is a more complex operation than meets the ordinary, untutored eye. The objective of rigging election is to ensure the processes are artificially orchestrated to result in the emergence of a particular, premeditated individual as the winner.

On Monday September 6, 2010, the striking lecturers of state-owned universities in the South East geopolitical zone donned full academic regalia and staged a protest march in Enugu, the political capital of the defunct Eastern Region, over the failure of governments in the zone to implement the Federal Government/Academic Staff Union of Universities (FG/ASUU) pact reached last year after a prolonged national strike.