THE Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE has just ended a global road show in a bid to attract genuine investors to the comatose power sector, which so far, had defied all logical solution.

Police authority in Kano yesterday paraded a 20 years old suspected rapist believed to be contracted by a landlord to rape his tenant following the expiration of a tenancy agreement.

THE Federal Government yesterday assured the international community that the present administration would leave a legacy of free, fair, transparent and credible election during the conduct of the forthcoming general elections.

THE Senate and House of Representatives Joint Committee on Gas yesterday threatened to dump the 2011 budget proposal of the Ministry of Petroleum because of the non submission of the budget proposals of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to the National Assembly.

CHRISTIAN clerics including the President of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, former CAN vice president, Bishop Mike Okonkwo and PFN Secretary General, Pastor Wale Adefarasin have again threatened to lead the nation’s Christians to protest any attempt to manipulate the outcome of the forthcoming general elections.

Following the attempted resignation of the newly appointed Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Mr. Ziakede Akpobolokemi, there are indications that the Minister of Transport will this week sack the three Executive Directors of the agency.

A Warri-based lawyer, Dr. Akpor Mudiaga-Odje, yesterday, said President Goodluck Jonathan was the utmost beneficiary of the Niger Delta agitation.

Goods worth millions of naira were at the early hours of yesterday razed by fire that gutted over 60 shops at the mami market in the Ikeja Military cantonment.

Arising from the three-day summit on climate change at the weekend, stakeholders at the 3rd edition of the annual summit organized by Lagos State Government have recommended that Lagos State should consider the adoption of the functional assessment framework approach to climate change actions as a way of facilitating the implementation of adaptation strategies.

THE delay in passing the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, into law is generating increasing anxiety among stakeholders.

Special Adviser to Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State on Political and Legislative Affairs, Ntufam Edet Asim has told opposition political parties in the state to wait till 2015 as there was no vacancy in the state Government House for now.

The convention of Traditional rulers, Community Development Committee chairmen, youths and women leaders of all the communities in Bayelsa State has lauded Governor Timipre Sylva’s developmental and reform initiatives.

AN Ijaw pressure group, Ijaw Peoples Congress, IPC, has called on the Inspector-General of Police to stop the vindictive name-calling in connection with the assassination of Mr. Simon Oguma in Warri by unseen persons in December 2010, particularly the recent arrest of Mr. Paul Tusemone.

THE National Open University will soon take off in Delta State with three designated centres, namely Sapele, Warri and Asaba.

THE Dr Samuel Ogbemudia- led Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, yesterday, attributed the failure of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state to win all the re-run elections held in the state to the alleged hijack of the leadership of the party by decampees from the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP.