The entire Alaba Suru along the Badagry expressway was in disarray last Monday as some armed persons later discovered to be members of the outlawed Odua Peoples Congress, OPC, took over the entire road chanting war songs.

A Civil Society, Coalition Against Illegal Arrest and Unlawful Detention (CAIA & UD), on Monday issued a-48- hour ultimatum to the Inspector -General of Police, Mr Hafeez Ringim with which to release the National President of ‘No Bribe Club of Nigeria’ Chief Nadum Nwitua from kirikiri Maximum prison or face massive protest.

The four presidential aspirants forged in alliance against President Goodluck Jonathan for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential ticket were in suspense yesterday after it emerged that the nine-man committee was inconclusive after its meetings with the quartet.

The Lagos-Ibadan Expressway:This is main gateway into Lagos, the nation’s hub of commercial activities. It is arguably the busiest and most traversed trunk road in Sub-Saharan Africa. It serves unquantifiable number of traffic daily such as heavy duty trucks, commuter buses and other vehicles to and from the Lagos metropolis to every other parts of Nigeria.

Suspected party thugs in their hundreds almost marred the visit of the Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to the premises of Adamawa State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, secretariat as they engaged each other in a free-for-all fight at the weekend.

THE face-off between doctors in Edo State and the state government, deepened, weekend, following the threat by the state government to sack any doctor under its employ, who failed to resume work today.

IGBO political leaders in the five South Eastern states rose from a meeting in Enugu yesterday with a resolve to work tenaciously for the realization of President Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential ambition in the 2011.

ON this, the eve of the general elections, it is again evident that the Anioma are on the road to self-immolation. Those who attack the ideology and or philosophical foundation of democracy have opined that it is only at election time that the people have any weight.

THE Speakers of 36 State Houses of Assembly have endorsed the National Assembly’s appeal at the Supreme Court challenging the Lagos High Court ruling on the First amendment to the 1999 Constitution.

THE potential flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party and gubernatorial aspirant in Ebonyi State, Chief Martin Elechi, said yesterday that President Goodluck Jonathan remained the only credible candidate in the line up of aspirants contesting 2011 general elections.

A LITTLE over one year after the amnesty programme of late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua went into effect, with hundreds of ex-militants of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, surrendering their weapons to the federal authorities, the nation seems to be sliding to square one.

Ahead of the unveiling of a consensus candidate from the north by the Adamu Ciroma committee of Wise men and leaders, to challenge President Goodluck Jonathan in the forthcoming presidential primaries of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo, has asked northerners to ignore the activities of Ciroma.

Sponsors of the controversial bill that canvassed for inclusion of lawmakers as members of political parties’ NEC said the move was to save the parties from “dictatorial and tyrannical” management.

AN Anambra State High Court sitting at Otuocha has ordered an Onitsha-based legal practitioner, Mr. Chibuzo Odili, and his client, Mr. Chinonso Nwajeri, to pay the sum of N2.05 million to one Mr. Samuel Ugokwe, an Onitsha-based trader over alleged false accusation.

MEMBERS of the current session of the National Assembly surely qualify as the worst crop of legislators ever assembled in Nigeria. Since the Freedom of Information Bill was introduced about 10 years ago, the House of Representatives, Senate and Presidency have been dancing circles around it to ensure it does not become law because if it does, governance will be demystified in accordance with genuine democratic traditions.