THE future will have no pity for those men who possessing the exceptional privilege of being able to speak words of truth to their oppressors, have taken refuge in an attitude of passivity, of mute indifference, and sometimes of cold complicity,” so said Frantz Fanon.

NIGERIANS are no longer surprised when Profes-sor Attahiru Jega, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, speaks about the possibility of the 2011 elections holding at a later date. What may still surprise some is that Jega, who arrived at the job highly recommended, is building strong alibis, in case things go awry.

EDO State Governor, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, has directed the Edo State Police Command to thoroughly investigate the circumstances that led to the killing of one person at Ora Ward in Ovia South-West Local Government Area of the state, during the membership registration exercise of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, recently.

MRS. Joy Emodi, who until recently represented Anambra North senatorial district in the Senate, has said that her decision to dump her former party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, was not necessarily to pick the ticket of the party for next year’s election, but to be part of the success story of Governor Peter Obi.

The immediate past Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Michael Kaase Aondoakaa, SAN, yesterday visited the Supreme Court in Abuja to protest his suspension from the prestigious club of the Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN.

AN Ogun State High Court yesterday granted an interim injunction restraining the Inspector General of Police from giving effect to the resolution of the House of Representatives, asking him to provide security for the Speaker Tunji Egbetokun to sit within seven days.

When in 1999, Dickson Utuke, a Nigerian based in Germany visited home and saw his elder sister and her husband, an Inspector of Police, living from hand to mouth, he was shaken to his bone marrows. He quickly took far-reaching decisions aimed at improving their lives.

CERTIFICATES of Occupancy, CofOs, will now be ready in Rivers State within 45 days, Governor Chibuike Amaechi, has said.

MR Michael Opeyemi Bamidele is the Commissioner for Information and Strategy in Lagos State and also an indigene of Ekiti State. In this interview, he expressed satisfaction in the recently delivered judgement given by the Court of Appeal sitting in Ilorin which rested the three and half years legal tussle between Dr Kayode Fayemi of the Action Congress of Nigeria and Engineer Segun Oni of the Peoples Democratic Party.

Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners, NARTO, and Association of Fish Suppliers of Nigeria, AFISUN, truck drivers, have vowed not to pay the wharf landing fees through a government agency.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, has ordered the Assistant Inspector-General of Police Zone 2, Onikan, Lagos, to restore Nigerian Principal Representative to Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, Ambassador Aminu Wisdom and his family, into possession of his residence on 21A Cooper Road, Ikoyi, Lagos.

THE presidential concession granted Bayelsa State to receive extra derivation funds from nine offshore oil wells has sparked a row in the Federal Accounts’ Allocation Committee, FAAC, meeting as the other littoral states are asking for similar treatment

CHAIRMAN, IC Global Micro Finance Bank, Chief Joe Arausi, yesterday, said the bank’s licence, which was revoked by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, last week, had been re-instated by the apex bank and assured customers of the bank of a better service.

Bayelsa State Commissioner for Education, Chief Josephine Ezonbodor, has ordered the immediate relocation of Community Secondary School, Sagbama to the community primary school, following the sacking of the school by flood.

WORRIED by strange deaths in his kingdom in recent time, the Ovie of Idjerhe (Jesse) Kingdom in Delta State, His Royal Majesty, Erhiekevwe 1, and the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, have announced a one-week prayer and fasting programme for the people of the community to avert further deaths