The protracted doctors’ strike called by the Medical Guild, doctors under employment of the Lagos State government, has taken a dramatic twist as their counterparts in the Federal health institutions in the state have made good their threat to embark on a three-day solidarity strike beginning today.

Human and vehicular movements were disrupted yesterday at Mile 2, along the Lagos/ Badagry Expressway, following sporadic gunshots from a robbery gang which intercepted a vehicle conveying traders from Cotonou, Benin Republic.

NOT less than 40 per cent of homes and roads in Asaba were flooded, yesterday, following a downpour.

Vice President Namadi Sambo said yesterday that the present administration was committed to ensuring safety of lives and property of motorists plying the nation’s highways.

FIFTEEN months after the Nigeria National Petro-leum Corporation, NNPC, Atlas Cove facility in Apapa, Lagos was set ablaze by alleged members of the Move-ment for the Emancipa-tion of the Niger Delta, MEND, the Navy weekend averted similar attempt and arrested 18 suspects.

THE nation’s 36 governors are gathering in Abuja, today, to battle for the leadership of the Nigerian Governors Forum in a contest that is laced with political intrigues tied to the 2011 presidential election.

WHEN I was growing up in Obalende on the Lagos Island, an enlarged, glassed photograph hung majestically from the wall. It was that of a beautiful young woman who sat like Queen Elizabeth II in her official portrait.

THE National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo has finally wielded the big stick in Enugu State.

ONE of the most dangerous things about imagination is that one can stretch it limitlessly. Imagination abhors boundaries, what is required to extend it is the capacity of the individual to visualise the matter in contention.

The Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory, Justice Lawal H. Gummi, yesterday fixed November 24 to deliver judgment on a suit challenging the decision of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to jettison its controversial zoning arrangement

Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufa’i, yesterday reiterated the Federal Government’s commitment towards revamping the education sector and putting an end to policy inconsistency in the system

THE Senate has confirmed former Oyo State Commissioner of Education, Professor Taoheed Adedoja, as a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, in replacement of the former Minister of State for Finance, Mr. Remi Babalola.

NIGER Delta leader and Second Republic Senator, Senator Francis Okpozo, yesterday, warned Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, operating in Isokoland, not to sell the marginal field in the area to avoid crisis between the communities in Isoko in Delta State and the company.

ABEG President Goodluck Jonathan is weak. We need somebody who is strong-willed, someone with a mind of his own, who is willing to take risks,” blurted Sam this Saturday morning while the commuter bus was moving through Ikeja on its way to Apapa Wharf.

SOILDIERS from the military Joint Task Force, JTF, yesterday, invaded Ifiekporo community in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, backed by two armoured tanks and overran the community, even as the community has called for the withdrawal of the soildiers.