SENATE President, David Mark would today in Lagos, commission the commercial launch of Glo 1, the multi-million dollar international submarine cable built by the second national operator, Globacom.

An angry House of Representatives seating in plenary, yesterday, claimed that only 30% of the capital vote for the 2010 budget has been released to Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, of government two months to the end of the financial year.

– SECOND republic Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande said in Ibadan yesterday that he was pleased with how justice took its course in some of the South West zones especially in Ekiti and Ondo States where Peoples Democratic Party led governments were sent packing.

A JOHANNESBURG court in South Africa was, yesterday, told that the former leader of Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND, Henry Okah, who is facing trial for allegedly masterminding the October 1 twin car bombs in Abuja allegedly sent a go_ahead to his accomplices in Nigeria to detonate the bombs.

MOVED by the lingering political crisis in some state chapters of the Peoples Democratic Party, the National leadership of the party has ordered a fresh congresses in six states of Anambra, Bayelsa, Enugu, Imo, Kogi, and Oyo, commencing today with ward congresses.

SENATOR Dahiru Kuta, PDP, Niger; said yesterday, that the decision of political leaders from the North Central geo_political zone asking former military president General Ibrahim Babangida and Dr. Bukola Saraki to withdraw from the presidential race was not binding on the Peoples Democratic Party in Niger State because the state was solidly behind General Ibrahim Babangida.

Erstwhile Minister of Finance Minister and the leader of the Northern Political Leaders Forum, Mallam Adamu Ciroma has said the North would use every legal and democratic means to scuttle the 2011 presidential ambition of the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan.

Youths/Students Vanguard, a group under Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has kicked against the purported move by Northern Elders Forum to produce a consensus presidential aspirants come 22nd October.

Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has listed qualities which according to the group, the electorate should consider before casting their votes for candidates at the 2011 general elections.

The mood of the Igbo is that they have embraced the Jonathan presidency because of the kith and kin issue with the South-South and power has been in the North for long