Following the reported killings of some 43 Igbo traders in Jos, Plateau State , the Federal Government has been called upon to take decisive actions to help the state government stem the crisis from escalating into a tribal conflict.

When the Senate summoned the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, to appear before it to explain reasons for the frustration being encountered by Nigerians trying to register as voters in the forthcoming elections, it was thought that the lawmakers would give him such a dressing down that when he leaves the chambers, he would bow his head in shame. But, after spending more than four answers answering questions from the senators, Jega emerged largely unscathed with a reinforced confidence that his oft repeated assurance that the elections would be credible may be true after all.

AHEAD of April polls, Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State weekend advocated stiff sanctions on any broadcasting organization that uses its medium as a means of political tool against any political party.

The management of an Ibadan-based private university, Lead City University, Ibadan has handed over four of its students and a parent to the Oyo State Police Command for alleged possession of dangerous weapons during the protest that greeted the row between the institution and the National Universities Commission (NUC).

Senator Ajuji Waziri, husband of Mrs. Farida Waziri, Chairman, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has denied using his wife to settle political scores following his failure to win the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), ticket for re-election to the Senate.

MEMBERS of late Comrade Chidi Nwosu family, who was murdered on the night of December 29, 2010, in his house at Ameke Abam in Arochukwu council area of Abia State, have called on the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, and the Abia State Police Commissioner, Mr. Bala Hassan, to thoroughly investigate the matter with a view to ensuring that those who killed the civil rights activist were apprehended.

The superlative performance showcased by the weightlifting athletes during last year’s Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India, has aroused more expectations from Nigerians from the weightlifting federation.

Super Eagles coach Samson Siasia has been urged to build a formidable team from players playing in the local league to free the country from being held hostage by foreign-based players.

IT will be laying the truth on the head for anybody to claim that Ayakoromor, the country-home of wanted militant leader, “General” John Togo, in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, was not torn down by the Joint Task Force (JTF), on the Niger-Delta when soldiers invaded the town in search of Togo, last December.

It was the late United States President John Fitzgerald Kennedy who said that “those who make peaceful evolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.” The gale of pro-democracy riots that ended the 23-year-old dictatorship of former Tunisian President Zine Ben-Ali is spreading like wild harmattan fire as Egypt, Yemen and Algeria have witnessed the outpouring of people’s anger on their streets.