The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, yesterday, confirmed that today, in Kaduna, retired military top brass and their counterparts from the Police and State Security Service (SSS) from the North and the Middle Belt would brainstorm on the continued violence in Jos, Maiduguri and Bauchi, at a time when Vanguard has been made to understand that some of the invited Generals may not attend the meeting.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, began nationwide consultation with various interest groups with a view to hitting the ground running as soon as he is sworn-in.

WITH barely 10 days to the impending general elections in the country, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, yesterday, re-iterated his resolve to conduct a free, fair and credible poll next month, vowing that he would not repeat mistakes of his predecessors.

A Federal High Court sitting in Benin, Edo State, yesterday, adjourned till May 31, 2011, to rule on whether the court has the jurisdiction to hear the charge brought before it by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, against former Governor of Edo State, Chief Lucky Igbinedion, bordering on allegations of corruption.

ONDO State government and the State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, traded words over the kidnap of 65 year-old mother of businessman turned politician, Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim, accusing each other of being responsible for the abduction of Mrs Ibrahim, who was kidnapped last weekend.

EXECUTIVE Director of the Community Research and Development Centre, CREDC, Mr.Etinosa Uyigue, said, yesterday, in Benin, that over 60 percent of Nigerians were excluded from the national electricity grid.

Professor Ndi Okereke-Onyuike, who was sacked as the Director General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, has told a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, that she has no plan to return to the office at the conclusion of the suit she brought, challenging her sack.

IF the current survey of NOI Polls is anything to go by, then President Goodluck Jonathan and Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State would have no problems retaining their seats at the April polls.

THE Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dimeji Bankole, has said the continued stalemate in the Ogun State House of Assembly which led to its closure in the past seven months was because the National Assembly did not pass a resolution for the takeover of the House

I’ve been with my current girlfriend for two years and she told me a few days ago that she often had multiple orgasms with a man she used to date before we met. With me she only orgasms once. She was almost bragging about this comparison and I felt really hurt. I don’t understand why she had them with this ex and not with me.

When my nine-year-old suddenly started wetting the bed years after he had stopped, I noticed he drank water all of the time. When I mentioned this to a close friend who is a nurse, she said I should bring him to the teaching hospital where she worked, she suspected he must have symptoms of diabetes.

There were 20 of the 22 invited players at the Super Eagles’ first training session yesterday evening, ahead of Sunday’s 2012 African Cup of Nations qualifier against Ethiopia.

AS the bombs hit Libya, the issues have moved from the world’s position on rights of Libyans that Moammar El-Gadhafi abused over his 42-year-old reign, to the implications of the United Nations authorising the invasion of another country, 21 years after the Gulf War against Saddam Hussein.

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has threatened to sanction Afribank Securities Limited, Eurocomm Securities Limited, Aims Asset Management Limited, Centre Point Investment Limited, Adamawa Securities and 24 other stockbroking firms for breach of its rules.

CONGRATULATIONS! The number of our universities has swelled to 117, no mean achievement from the pre-independence days when we had only the University College, Ibadan. The irony is that when we had a handful of universities, they were some of the best in the world, today, our tertiary institutions cannot easily be captured on the radar of universities in Africa while they are missing amongst the world’s best.