Anambra State Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Prof. Stella Okunna, has said the state government was determined to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, in 2015.

Political aspirants for 2011 elections in Abia State have been advised to engage on issues-based campaign and avoid personality attack on fellow aspirants.

SOME residents of airport hillview layout in Enugu, whose land was recently acquired by the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, and Enugu State government for the expansion of Akanu Ibiam International Airport, have condemned the government’s decision to move into the land without first paying compensation to the affected owners of the land.

THE Senior Special Assistant to the former Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan on Research, Mr. Innocent Ojefia, has said Chief Edwin Clark does not parade core members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in his Delta State Elders, Leaders and Stakeholders Forum.

Former Accountant-General of old Bendel State, Mr Simeon Eyoma Okotie, JP, is dead, aged 79. He died at the Atlanta Medical Centre, Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States.