FACTS emerged, yesterday, that the 13 containers of rockets, grenades and other weapons intercepted at the Apapa Port, Lagos, by the State Security Service, SSS, were imported into the country with forged documents. The fake documentation aroused the suspicions of security agencies.

Former Governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday boasted that Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will lose in the 2011 general elections in the South-West.

LOANS are wonderful financial instruments, depending on who is borrowing, the lender, the purpose of the loans, and the sincerity of those who are proposing them.

Sometimes, it’s hard to accept the obvious, especially when it is expressed in such a blunt manner as to inflict sadness and pain on the innocent victim.

International, yesterday, called on the Rivers State government, to halt its planned demolitions and evictions in waterfront areas of Port Harcourt, arguing that it will leave over 200,000 people homelessness, if the threat is carried out.

Police in Plateau State said they have arrested seven people in connection with Monday’s attack on a village in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State in which six people were killed.

The people of Akure, in Ondo State, yesterday, protested against the appointment of Justice Sehinde Kumuyi as the Chief Justice of the state.

AFTER several years in the courts, Senator Emmanuel Onwe was recently declared the rightful winner of the Ebonyi Central senatorial seat in the 2007elections.

Striking lecturers of Anambra State University yesterday reviewed the on-going strike which has entered the fourth month, and urged the state and 21 local governments to pool resources together for the purpose of setting aside enough funds for smooth running of the university.

SOUTH – SOUTH Coordinator of the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, Prince Nasiru Ikharo, has said that with Nigeria allocating less than five percent of its annual budget to the health sector as against 15 percent recommended by the World Health Organisation, WHO, the country’s health system now ranks 197th of the 200 nations covered by WHO.

The Bayelsa Youth Leaders Forum, yesterday, tendered an apology to President Goodluck Jonathan and his host, Governor Timipre Sylva, over the unruly behaviour of youths, who pelted the Governor with plastic bottles and other objects, during a civic reception for the President.

In a determined effort to break into the elite top 100 universities in the world, the University of Lagos has recently held a retreat on strategic planning at Eko Tourist Beach Resort.

Unlike in the past when political posts were ‘shared’ among contestants in the ruling party in Niger State, the 2011 contest has been thrown open.

As the competition get hotter, two secondary schools from the Sub Saharan Africa countries, including Nigeria and Ghana are currently flying the continent’s flag at the ongoing Microsoft partners in learning Worldwide Innovative Education Forum holding in Cape Town, South Africa.

The 67 years old mother of Rivers State, Commissioner for Power, Madam Lucy Wokocha, was, yesterday, murdered in Okposi community of the state.