A dissatisfied member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Cyriacus Njoku, yesterday, asked an Abuja High court sitting in Maitama to go ahead and sack members of the National Executive Committee, NWC, of the party.

FORMER Vice President Atiku Abubakar said yesterday that he was never sacked from the Customs Service as it is being insinuated from some quarters, just as he stressed that he resigned voluntarily April 28, 1989.

FOLLOWING the exit of three Ministers so far from the Federal Executive Counci, FEC, in the last one week, President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday approved the redeployment of two Ministers.

The re-run election ordered by the Court of Appeal Benin for Delta State has been fixed for the 6th of January, 2011, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, announced yesterday in Abuja.

The furore generated by the decision of the Lagos State Government to concession the Lekki-Epe Express Way to a private firm to build and maintain the road has refused to die down.
Once again, residents of the area threatened to stop the State Government from collection of tolls along the express way. The state government, through LCC had recently announced its plans to commence collection of tolls on the newly constructed road from motorists beginning from January 3rd, 2011.

Lagos State Government, through the state’s Waste Management Authorities, LAWMA, yesterday, finally launched its new waste recycling management initiative when it unveiled two communal wastes recycling banks as part of measures to efficiently deal with the issue of over 9,000 tonnes of waste generated daily across the metropolis.

Bayelsa state U-17, boys soccer team has won the just concluded 2010, President Unity U-17 boys football tournament deceded at the Samson Siasia, Stadium, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, after beating hard fighting, Sokoto state boys 8-7 penalty shoot out.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Bayelsa State, may be heading for fresh crisis, following the decision of some of its key governorship aspirants to leave the party over allegations of fraud in the ongoing screening exercise.

ABIA State House of Assembly has explained why it rejected the appointment of Justice Ijeoma Offonri as the new Chief Judge of the state, saying most of its members did not know the woman and her record of practice.

A senatorial aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Dennis Ude Ekumankama, has stressed the need for the National Assembly to work closely with the opinions of the people in formulating policies for the growth and development of the country