OUR legislators cut a pitiable sight when they complain about being cheated in the political intrigues parties call primaries. Many of them are the first to run to the media with their complaints.

In an effort to prepare the Police for any bomb explosions that may occur during the 2011 general elections, the Inspector General of Police, Mr Hafiz Ringim, has approved the training of over 350 policemen attached to Explosive Ordnance Disposal, EOD, on “Bomb Scene Investigation and Management.”

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, directed the office of the National Security Adviser, NSA, to organised a special training of security agencies in crowd control and management to avoid future occurrence of the tragedy in Port Harcourt, last weekend.

Vice Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has warned that any attempt to rig April election could result in the historic revolution that ousted the 30 year-rule of Hosni Mubarack.

THE Federal Government yesterday offered $4 billion (N600 billion) as what would be required by the government and international donor agencies to execute the Mambilla hydro-power project.

President Goodluck Jonathan again yesterday asked the senate to expedite the passage of the Money Laundering Prohibition Bill 2009 and the Anti-Terrorism Bill 2009 which had been before the two chambers of the National Assembly for the past two years.

PEOPLES Democratic Party,PDP, chieftain in Anambra State Senator Emma Anosike, has dismissed discordant tunes trailing President Goodluck Jonathan’s speech at the party’s South West presidential rally, saying the speech did not translate to policy statements.

STUDENTS of the Edo State owned Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, yesterday, went on rampage over lack of water in the University campus.

Indigenes of riverine settlements of Peremabiri and Ezetu in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, have petitioned President Goodluck Jonathan and the National Assembly over an alleged plot by some persons to stop their communities from benefitting from the N2.5bn Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, projects in the state.

TENSION gripped Bayelsa State, yesterday, following the Court of Appeal judgment that reinstated the erstwhile Deputy Governor of the State, Mr. Peremobowei Ebebi, who was impeached by the State House of Assembly.

AS the campaign for the April general elections hots up in Edo State, the Senator representing Edo South senatorial district of the state, Senator Ehigie Uzamere, yesterday, described as laughable, claims by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that those of them who left the PDP for the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, were rejected members of the PDP.

SCORES of customers of the Union Bank Plc, were, yesterday, disappointed as they were unable to make any transaction with the bank following the picketing of the bank.

THE Presidency, yesterday, waded into the lingering dispute between organised labour and the management of Union Bank of Nigeria Plc, over the management of the bank’s withdrawal of recognition to its unit of Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions, ASSBIFI, affiliated to NLC among other grievances.

BRANCHES of the Union Bank Plc in Edo State were locked against customers, yesterday, by the Edo State Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, acting on a directive from its national headquarters to picket the bank over the de-recognition of workers’ unions by the bank’s management.

Mr. Timi Alaibe, the governorship candidate of Labour Party in Bayelsa State has promised to revamp the “collapsed educational sector” in the state. He made the pledge in Opokuma, his country home, when a delegation of party faithful from Igbarain Kingdom of the state, paid him a solidarity visit.