Two traditional rulers and one serving Local Government Transitional Committee Chairman have been indicted by security reports on kidnapping and other crimes in Abia State.

FOR residents of Isheri, Warewa, Mile 12 and other communities on the beds of the Ogun River in Ogun and Lagos states, these are certainly not the best of times. Some have lost their homes, some their shops and means of livelihood they have laboured for all their lives.

Lagos lawyer, Mr. Bamidele Aturu, yesterday, faulted plans by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to compile a new voters’ register, saying the law in place provides for an up-date of the register.

NINE months after the wife of the Vice Chairman of Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State, Mrs Elizabeth Otidi, escaped from her kidnappers’ den, the Ughelli Police, yesterday, arrested three persons in connection with her abduction.

Pioneer civilian Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, weekend, rallied support for President Goodluck Jonathan, saying any person from the Ijaw nation, who vote against the president in the forthcoming poll is a saboteur.

The peace of Umuonyeali-Ugo community, Mbieri, Mbaitoli local government area of Imo State has been badly jolted, following the gruesome murder of an 80-year-old man, Mr. Michael Onwusoronye, a.k.a Okashi, by suspected assassins.

Mobile devices manufacturers, Nokia, has announced that it was ready to introduce its latest high end phone, Nokia N8 in Nigeria.

A 34-year-old commercial motorcyclist, Innocent Sikiru, was arraigned at the Ebute Meta Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, yesterday, for allegedly stabbing a man to death.

THE Catholic Arch-Bishop of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okogie, has said the salvation of Nigeria lies with women. He added that he would not be surprised if in five years time the country produces a female president.

Tragedy struck, yesterday, at Alausa, Ikeja area of Lagos, after three persons, a motocyclist and his two passengers, were crushed to death by a fast moving vehicle.

Governor Babtunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, signed the year 2010 supplementary bill of N22 billion into law.

Nigeria has put in place “numerous incentives” to attract foreign investors to the country’s mining industry, Mines Minister, Musa Sada, has said.

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, has commiserated with the Champion Newspapers Limited, (Publishers of the Champion Newspaper titles) over the fire incident that engulfed the company’s headquarters at Isolo, Lagos.

A day after he was implicated in a bribery scandal involving the vote for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups bids, FIFA executive committee member Amos Adamu has come out to say that he was prepared to face an ethics panel hearing slated to hold tomorrow at FIFA’s headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland.

Indications are strong that of Winner Big Brother Africa All Stars reality show, Uti Nwachukwu, may be using a good size of the $200,000 prize money to promote his music album and probably push his music career a bit further.