The spate of criminal activities in Imo State is on the rise again, as the traditional ruler of Okwuamarihe, Orsu local government area of Imo State, Eze Mike Ebighi, narrowly escaped assassination last Wednesday.

The desire of a Lagos-based businessman, Donatus Dunu, to own a choice property at the highbrow Ikoyi area of Lagos State, has seemingly turned into a nightmare.

BARELY twenty-four hours after the release of the revised timetable for the 2011 general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP met yesterday for several hours to deliberate on it.

The nation’s pension assets hit a record N1.529 trillion, in 2009, according to the National Pension Commission, PenCom.

As one approached the residence of one of the factional chairmen of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Alhaji Lateef Salako, a.k.a. Eleweomo, one needed no soothsayer to tell him he was entering into a lion’s den.

President Goodluck Jonathan is expected to present a budget proposal for 2011 before a joint session of the National Assembly on Thursday, next week.

Former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Austin Opara, yesterday described opponents of the new proposal by the National Assembly to include lawmakers on the National Executive Committees of political parties in Nigeria as “insincere and myopic.”

THE Ondo Government has appointed Dr. Igbekele Ajibefun as the substantive Rector of the State-owned Rufus Giwa Polytechnic Owo, in Ondo State.

GOVERNOR Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State has described Senator Lekan Balogun’s call for protest against alleged partisanship of the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Adisa Baba Bolanta, as sheer mischief and parochialism.

EKITI State governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has constituted a committee to review contracts awarded during the 42-month the ousted government led by Engr Segun Oni was at the helm of affairs in the state.

The Senate Wednesday failed to approve the request by President Goodluck Jonathan to borrow $3.702 billion to develop the power sector, following observations by senators that it was unclear.

Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, has described Mrs. HID Awolowo as a stabilizing force of the Yoruba race and a quiet contributor to the unity of Nigeria.

Despite the sour relationship between Nigeria and Iran that resulted in the cancellation of the international football friendly between the two countries, the Nigeria Football Federation is still hopeful the tie could hold on a later date.

A collection of knowledgeable and reputable elders of Delta State, provisionally led by the former Deputy Premier of the defunct Midwest region and First Republic politician, Chief James Otobo, moved, yesterday, to give the state a proper leadership direction, differing principally on principles with some of the positions already taken by the Chief Edwin Clark-led Delta Elders, Leaders and Stakeholders Forum, DELSF, on the affairs of the state.

The First Baptist Church, Ikeja, Lagos State, South-West Nigeria, is set to commission a N53.6 million ultra-modern pastorium/office complex for its pastors and other purposes.