Former President, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, has asked the Federal Government to ensure the inclusion of albinos in all-encompassing educational policy of the country.

The Army yesterday disclosed that the Mammy Market in Mogadishu Cantonment barracks which was closed as a result of last December 31, 2010, bomb blast is to be opened soon.

Imo State Police Command has arrested five suspects who were alleged to have kidnapped an 80-year old woman, Mrs. Salome Ndu, from Obodo-Uchichi in Ahiazu Mbaise local government area of the state.

FORMER Minister of Information and Communications, Professor Dora Akunyili, has expressed worries about the level of money politics in the country, urging the electorate to beware of those who entice them with cash for vote.

THE people of Idheze community, Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta State, yesterday, handed down a 72-hour ultimatum on the Nigeria Agip Oil Company, NAOC, to meet their demands or vacate their land.

EMMANUEL Uduaghan recently thought he should respond to my piece: “Take a trip to the three Warri LGAs” published in the Vanguard of February 7, 2011. He went consulting his consultant, public communication and strategy. Both men came out and deposited a full-page advertorial in the Vanguard of February 8, 2011.

MEMBERS of the Delta State House of Assembly Committee on Finance and Appropriation, have summoned the former state Commissioner for Science and Technology, Dr. Roland Ehime his successor, Anthony Akpomiemie and the contractors handling the digitalization of the state House of Assembly proceedings to appear before the Committee on Wednesday this week to explain why the project was abandoned after much fund had been committed to it.

A member of the Niger Delta Development Commission Project Presidential Monitoring Committee, Mr. Furoebi Akeni, has expressed concern that thousands of eligible voters in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area may be disenfranchised in the forthcoming general elections following the failure of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to display the registered voters list in the area.

Going by the headline of this piece, what I am about to write is no more news.
I am convinced that perhaps there is nothing I am going to say here that our very intelligent readers have not heard or read and this influenced my earlier decision to dwell extensively on the just concluded Orange African Nations Championship.

EACH time there is tragedy on our roads, recriminations follow, and the matter is rested. It is time government did more to make the roads safer for everyone and in this enterprise, no excuses should be accepted.