OVER N200million has been expended on 30 projects executed in nine communities in oil rich Ilaje council areas of Ondo State in the last five years.

It was a simple campaign visit as has been carried to many other states of the federation by presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The Speaker, Imo State House of Assembly, Chief Goodluck Opiah, has said the machinery of government could not grind to a halt because a few individuals have vowed to oppose every policy and programme of the administration.

A Niger Delta Youth leader, Mr Paul Bebenimibo, yesterday, warned that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State may lose Warri South West in the forthcoming 2011 elections, if the leaders of the party impose candidates on the people.

My husband found out months ago that I was having an affair with a senior colleague. Another colleague tipped him off and I was more or less caught red handed. This lover is everything that my husband isn’t – kind, considerate, loving, affectionate and passionate.

My last boyfriend and I were together for a couple of years. He was a spare parts dealer and was very generous to me but had a foul temper. He used to beat me whenever he said I stepped out of line though he always apologized. In the end, I had to leave him when he almost dislocated the joint in my arm.

THIRTY-THREE people died, Tuesday, in Potiskum, Yobe State when two buses collided and burst into flames, a road safety agency official said.

Ndigbo in Diaspora, yesterday, took a swipe at the chairman of Northern Political Leaders Forum, NPLF, Mallam Adamu Ciroma, over his latest threat to pull down his party, PDP, if his preferred Northern aspirant failed to emerge as flagbearer for the 2011 presidential election.

Governor Ikedi Ohakim has said that no government in the South East geo-political zone closed down any of the state-owned universities.

Lagos State House of Assembly, in the early hours of yesterday, lost a lawmaker, Rotimi Sotomiwa. The late lawmaker was Chairman, ad hoc Committee on Special Duties.

WIFE of the Ondo State governor, Mrs. Olukemi Mimiko, yesterday urged women in the state to avail themselves with various empowerment programmes put in place by the present administration in the state to enhance their status in the society.

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and former member of House of Representatives in the ill-fated third Republic, Chief Bode Ajewole, has advised the people of Yoruba land to give support to the aspiration of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to become the next president of the country, saying “Atiku understands the feelings and problems confronting the Yorubas.”

AS Stephen Keshi andSamson Siasia go for the interview for the position of Super Eagles coach tomorrow, many Nigerians are waiting anxiously to know on his head the pendulum would settle on.

Former internationals, Ike Shorunmu, Thompson Oliha, Taribo West and Joseph Dosu are undecided on who should be appointed the next coach of the Super Eagles.

Former United States Special Envoy to Africa, Rev. Jesse Jackson and former UK Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Lord Paul Boateng have condemned the high rate of corruption in the country describing it as a crime against humanity.