The police in Rivers State have rescued a five-month-old baby kidnapped 10 days ago in Port Harcourt.

AS incumbent Head of Service of the Federation, HOS, Mr. Steve Oronsaye, bows out today after attaining the retirement age of 60 years. President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the appointment of a Professor of Chemistry, Oladapo Afolabi, as a successor.

Constitutional lawyer and former Minister of Education, Professor Ben Nwabueze, SAN, has slammed the legislative arm of government in Nigeria for challenging the propriety of having presidential assent on the purported amended version of the 1999 constitution, insisting that it would be needless to bother the Supreme Court with such triviality.

As the Sallah celebrations begin today, the Inspector General of Police, Hafiz Abubakar Ringim, has directed all states commissioners of police to deploy men and patrol equipment to black spots in their commands to ensure that there was no breakdown of law and order.

The Police High Command yesterday effected a major shake up in its hierarchy, with the appointment and redeployment of new Assistant Inspectors General for its zones.

Opponents of Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan’s participation in the yet to be re-scheduled gubernatorial elections in Delta State are forging fresh options to stop him.

Governor Bukola Saraki of Kwara State, in his Sallah message, yesterday, called on religious leaders in the country to continue to preach peace and unity to their followers and display love towards one another, noting that it is only these attributes can make Nigeria attain greatness and return to her glorious era.

Full academic activities are expected to resume by September next year in all the proposed six new universities, as the Federal Government yesterday released N1.5 billion for clearing of grasses and renovation of identified structure to be used as temporary sites for the universities in order to make them habitable for staff and students.

Until we began to hear discordant tunes from him, Alhaji Azeem Gbolarumi was one of the confidants of Governor Adebayo Alao_Akala of Oyo State. His ‘role’ in the impeachment of Senator Rashidi Ladoja and the installation of Governor Akala was quite noticeable.

The re-branded annual Ahiajoku lecture, the Igbo forum for intellectual harvest and cultural renaissance, is set to hold in Owerri, Imo State capital, this month.

Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State has said the state government has fulfilled all terms of agreement reached with representatives of Academic and Non-Academic Staff Union of the state university during a stakeholders meeting with bishops and elders of the state in Onitsha last week.

SENATOR Joy Emodi, who until recently represented Anambra North senatorial zone in the senate, has called for the termination of the contract for the reconstruction of Onitsha-Enugu expressway, in view of what she described as the poor performance of the contractor.

A member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Board of Trustee Senator Bode Olajumoke, has blamed lack of internal democracy in all the political parties as problems tearing apart the parties and not allowing democracy to strive in the country.
Olajumoke who is also the Chairman Senate Committee on Navy, said some of the visionary leaders of the party had foreseen the problem and warned on the need to stem the tide

GOVERNOR Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State, has promised that his administration would not impose any unpopular monarch on the people in its bid to resolve the pending chieftaincy crises across the state.

A 55 year-old church, Foursquare Gospel Church, has enjoined other Christian faithful to pray earnestly for the country as we approach the 2011 elections.