Fear has gripped commissioners in Delta State as the state Governor, who had not hidden his feelings that some of the commissioners were disloyal, is about to dissolve his cabinet with a view to setting up a new one.

OVER fifteen persons were reported wounded when Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, youths clashed in Afuze, Owa East Local Government Area of Edo State, following allegations of alleged manipulation of the on-going voters’ registration exercise by both parties.

HOUSE of Representatives candidate for the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in the Bomadi / Patani Federal constituency, Dr Chris Ekiyor, has challenged the People’s Democratic Party, PDP candidate and incumbent representative of the constituency, Mr Nicholas Mutu to a media debate.

FOLLOWING what was described as an in-house fence mending, most of the aspirants to elective positions who failed to make it during the recent primaries of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Anambra State, yesterday, decided to support those who won the party’s tickets in the interest of peace and harmony within the party.

GOVERNOR Gbenga Daniel of Ogun State, yesterday, exonerated former President Olusegun Obasanjo from the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state, saying people including Minister of Industries; Senator Jubril Martins-Kuye were only using his name to cause trouble.

Local production of cement will hit 17 million tonnes mark this year following the enforcement of Nigerian Local Content Act. The production of cement increased from two million tones in 2002 to 10.5 million in 2010 and is expected to rise to 17 million tonnes as the Federal government’s efforts to meet up with the local demand of cement is yielding positive result

Following the judgment of a Federal High Court in Abuja that sacked him as the bona-fide candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for Imo West senatorial constituency, Chief Hope Uzodinma, yesterday, went before an Appeal Court in Abuja with a view to setting it aside.

At least one person was wounded and five vehicles destroyed by a mob, weekend, in Abakaliki during the re-run of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, House of Representatives’ primaries for Afikpo North West and Afikpo South East constituency seats of Ebonyi State.

AS the 2011 political activities gather momentum, the General Officer Commanding 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Enugu, Major General Sarkin Yakin Bello, has advised officers and soldiers under his command to be apolitical and ensure that law and order reigned in their areas of operation.

Federal Government has banned the importation of rice through land borders with immediate effect as a means of reducing the increasing smuggling of the product in a bid to short change government of accruable revenue from such imports.