THE Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has said the apex bank will complete the process of recapitalizing the eight commercial banks it rescued from collapse in 2009 by the middle of the year.

LAGOS Island, unarguably the hottest business district in the country is witnessing an unprecedented surge in the value of commercial properties.

Reference to the colonial by Continental Africans as a constraining development condition is now dismissed as an excuse just as reference to legacies of slavery by New World Africans is judged to be escapist. The refrain is “The colonial is long gone, 50 years gone- what have you done since October 1st 1960? What have you done since Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation?”

ONE week after he made public plans to re-organise the apparatus of government in the state to ensure better service delivery, the Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, yesterday, sacked his Special Assistants and Political Aides with immediate effect.

POLICEMEN from Zone 9 Headquarters, Umuahia, Abia State, in the early hours of yesterday, were said to have raided the residence of Abia State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Chief Anthony Agbazuere, claiming that they were in search of missing INEC Direct Data Capture, DDC, machines.

DELTA State Government, yesterday, raised an eight man committee to visit Ayakoromo community to assess the damage done to it and work out modalities for immediate relief, while directing the management of the Delta State Oil Producing Development Commission, DESOPADEC, to release the sum of N50 million for the rehabilitation of the community.

FORMER Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in the defunct Bendel State, Olorogun Atuyota Ejughemre, yesterday, said that the on going voters’ registration exercise in the country was fraught with a lot of challenges.

Immediate past Health Commissioner in Imo State, Dr. Vin Udokwu, has been released by his abductors who kept him in captivity for about five months.

DELTA State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, and two governorship aspirants in the state, Prof. Saliba Mukoro and Mr. Collins Eselemo of the National Conscience Party, NCP, weekend, tasked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to ensure that all eligible voters in the state were registered despite the hitches in registration exercise.

Elders, aspirants and party stalwarts, who took part in the primary elections for the Senate, House of Representatives and the state Assembly have written series of petitions to the leadership of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Lagos State.