AFTER initial opposition by some aggrieved stakeholders which prompted the postponement of the flag-off of tolling on the Eti-Osa -Lekki Toll Road, the concessionaire of the 49.5 kilometre expressway, Messrs Lekki Concession company limited (LCC), last week announced that tolling at the first toll plaza will commence on Monday, January 3, 2011.

AFTER what was dubbed a very rigorous selection process, the board of the re-developed 1004 Estates Limited has appointed four facility management companies to manage the massive complex located in the highbrow Victoria Island area of Lagos.

The Joint Task Force has recorded a major success in its fight against crude oil theft with the inception of two vessels loaded with 138,800 litres of illegally refined petroleum products in Bayelsa State worth millions of naira.

“Somebody took my son and threw him into the sea. My Sunday is a peaceful boy, he does not fight and does not smoke, I can’t believe he is nowhere to be found. I miss him so much”; Sunday’s mother, Mrs Oluyemi Akindele lamented holding her bible to her chest and speaking Yoruba in very low tones.

AS a stakeholder in Igbo affairs, I was for once proud that the apex Igbo Socio-Cultural Association Ohaneze Ndigbo took a position on the issue of zoning Nigeria’s presidency in 2011. Indeed, the decision must have come from the finest political thinkers of our generation.

TO save the polity from avoidable tension and mayhem, leading presidential aspirants have been urged to halt their incessant use of acerbic, divisive and caustic language ahead the 2011 polls.

President Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential ambition in 2011 received a boost yesterday as no fewer than 585 delegates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the South-West promised to vote for him and his Vice Alhaji Namadi Sambo in the party’s primaries in January 2011.

There was mild drama,yesterday, at the Presidential lounge of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, as Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s supporters, under the aegis of Turaki Vanguard, were driven out of the car park of the presidential lounge before the arrival of President Goodluck Jonathan aboard presidential jet marked number NAF 001 at about 6.10p.m.

Founder of the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, Dr Frederick Faseun is disturbed by the manner politicians are going about preparations for the 2011 polls – stockpiling arms and engaging in mud-splashing.

The Governor, who spoke with reporters at the new domestic terminal of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, IKeja, Lagos, asked Nigerians to continue to defend their votes in the coming general elections.