DELTA State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, gave indication, yesterday, that a shake-up is imminent in the apparatus of government in the state to ensure better service delivery to the people.

Indications emerged last week that the Asset Management Company set up by the CBN will after all take up shareholding in banks from which they purchased bad debt.

A supervisor (name withheld) recruited by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Ebonyi State, was arrested, weekend, by the state Police Command for allegedly hijacking materials, including the Direct Data Capturing, DDC, machines meant for Ikwo Local Government Area of the state.

A petition has been sent to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms Navi Pillay, asking her to urgently facilitate the holding of a special session of the UN Human Rights Council to address the deteriorating human rights situation in Jos, Plateau State.

THERE is an uneasy calm in the sleepy community of Umunkwo Ogbakuba in Ogbaru local government area of Anambra State, following weekend’s forceful entry by people believed to be from neighbouring Osomala into a disputed land between the two communities.

The police in Dallas, USA have made a u-turn on the death of former Super Eagles star, Uche Okafor.
Victor Ugo, Vice Chairman of Nigerians In Diaspora in the Americas, said yesterday that the police have withdrawn from their position of suicide being the cause of death to “inconclusive evidence.” The police also added that “investigation is ongoing.”

The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has asked the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, to protect the integrity of the nation’s judiciary by immediately filing a criminal contempt charge against Senator Iyiola Omisore over his recent attacks against the President of the Court of Appeal and other members of the court.

The rude shock that enveloped Nigerian soccer scene over the tragic death of former Super Eagles defender, Uche Okafor, is still as fresh as it is puzzling. Okafor, reportedly committed suicide in his home in Dallas, USA to set tongues wagging as many, including his family have alleged foul play.

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday frowned on incessant and recurring bloodbath and other avoidable crisis in the country that has led to personnel of the armed forces and other security agencies paying the supreme price and bringing untold hardship to their families and dependants, warning that without unity, the nation’s development would be doomed.

MARITIME Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, yesterday directed dockworkers in all the Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, support services in off-shore locations across the country to down tools and begin an indefinite strike from today over unpaid debt since 2007.

Last year, Nigerian football was at the cross roads.Good will set in, court cases were vacated, peace was expected to reign. Never again, the rancor, acrimony, inefficiency and corruption that bedeviled the sport we hold so dear.
This year, we were expected to take a decision, move forward, to the promised land.

The Ekiti State judicial workers have said they will commence a five-day warning strike today to protest against the government’s failure to improve their welfare.

THE camp of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Ondo State swelled weekend as failed aspirants in the ruling Labour Party now find succour in the party.

T hat the world is now a global village is no more in doubt thanks to developments in science and technology and many developing countries, especially in Asia, are benefitting immensely from it and Nigeria can benefit too if we get our act together as Ghana employs about 800 people in one station where they are doing IT returns to transfer medical records back to the US.

The nation’s currency, the naira suffered heavily last week against the United States dollar, losing 150 kobo at the official market owing to upsurge in demand, which crossed the $900 million mark.