However, the nullification of the 2007 Delta State Gubernatorial Election yesterday claimed its first major victim, with the cancellation of Vice President Namadi Sambo’s proposed visit to the oil rich state.

THE three-day warning strike embarked upon by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, turned bloody in Edo State yesterday, when a trigger happy mobile police officer attached to a Judge from a neighouring state, shot at the state Chairman of the National Union of Air Transport Employees, NUATE, Comrade Godwin Ehikioya, when the union leaders tried to enforce the strike directive at the Benin Airport.

Some youths organisations yesterday raised an alarm that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, purported gentleman agreement on zoning arrangement was a ploy designed by a powerful clique to turn Nigeria into a one-party state, and with intent to continue to hold on to power and perpetually oppress the people.

Though he represents the powerful and influential Urhobo population in the Senate, little was heard or known about Senator Adegho Eferakeya until now.

The Association of Resident Doctors, ARD, of Abia State University Teaching Hospital, ABSUTH, Aba, has vowed to continue the strike its members embarked upon over five months ago, saying doctors would only resume work when the state government implements the new welfare package the association agreed with it.

The police in Bayelsa State have nabbed two persons suspected to be members of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, for attempting to blow up the NDDC motor park in Yenagoa with dynamite.

THE number of senators on the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly was reduced by three yesterday as Senators, Umar Argungu, (Kebbi), Adego Eferakaya, (Delta) and Joel Danlami, (Taraba), decamped from the PDP to join opposition parties

A socio-political organization in Bayelsa State, Movement for Good Governance, has cautioned the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, not to allow itself to be hijacked by some desperate politicians to forestall the 2011 elections.

The Chairman of the National Task Force to combat illegal importation and smuggling of goods, small arms, Ammunitions and light weapons, NATFORCE, Major General Collins Ihekire (Rtd), has been relieved of his appointment.

EKITI—Staffers of Ekiti State House of Assembly yesterday defied the directive of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, as virtually most of them showed up at their duty post until they were chased out by the labour leaders in the state.