THERE is fresh anxiety in the Edo State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over alleged plans by the leadership of the Action Congress, AC, and the state government to sack four PDP local government area Chairmen, who are yet to decamp to the AC.

AHEAD of a new phase of negotiation at the United Nations General Assembly, this month, aimed at producing a synthesis of the proposal for a permanent seat for Africa in the Security Council, President Goodluck Jonathan and his host, Mr. Nicholas Sarkozy, yesterday, resolved to support immediate reformation of the United Nations Security Council to include Africa as permanent member.

BOTH the old rulers and the rulers-in-waiting ruled the same society, the colonial province of Nigeria. On September 2, 1957 Tafawa Balewa became the first Prime Minister of the British Colony, Nigeria. After the 1959 Independence elections he became on October 1, 1960, the first transitional Prime Minister voted for in colonial Nigeria and to be Prime Minister of an independent Nigeria. The federal election in 1964 was the first organised by the Federal Government of an independent Nigeria.

To end the four-week strike by magistrates in Lagos State over validity of the Magistrates’ Court Law of Lagos State, 2009, the Democratic Peoples’ Alliance, DPA has canvassed a judicial system that would be shielded from Executive and Legislative interference.

ABOUT six communities reportedly affected by a recent oil spillage from Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, pipelines at Okpare-Olomu in the Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State have cried out to the state government and the firm over the harmful effect of the spillage on their environment.