UNCERTAINTIES heralding the April 2011 general elections appear to be on the upswing. Following a series of litigations, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, may be forced to return to the drawing board concerning the order of the polls.

A former Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande said in Lagos that his greatest regret in politics was the cancellation of the metroline project started by his administration in the 80s.

All financial regulators have because of the financial meltdown and experiences of allied economies in the world have become proactive to issues as against the former approach. NAICOM being one of them had come up in advance with measures to check potential problems.

A man who allegedly bathed his girlfriend with acid, over the latter’s decision to call the six years relationship quit, weekend, pleaded to be forgiven, explaining that he did it out of frustration and fear of losing his girl friend.

TO win Lagos in next month’s election, the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have mapped out strategies to corner the 6.1 million voters of the state.

A Nigerian living in the United State, Jessica Rene Tata, has been declared wanted by the U.S. Marshals over allegation of committing offences ranging from manslaughter, injury and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.

The Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, has harvested a total of 331 Expressions of Interest, EOIs, in the privatisation of the successor companies created out of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN.

With barely 26 days to the impending general elections, a constitutional lawyer, Mr Austine Afolabi, has dragged the National Judicial Council, NJC; the Federal Judicial Service Commission, FJSC and the Attorney-General of the Federation before a Federal High Court in Abuja, challenging the locus of the embattled President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami, to set-up Election Petition Appeal Tribunals for the purposes of adjudicating over
electoral disputes that may arise after the forthcoming polls.

House of Representatives’ spokesman, Eseme Eyiboh, has described state governors in Nigeria as ‘democratic monarch’s’ who are threat to free, fair and credible elections in the country.

A female suspect who was arrested yesterday with 13 kilogrammes of methamphetamine by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, claimed she thought the substances were fertilizers.

The Independent Working Group on the Technical Committee on Niger Delta,TCND, has warned that selective and ad-hoc implementation of the committee’s recommendations will undermine the peace, development, security and stability of the Niger Delta.

FORMER Director-General of the Center for Democratic Studies, CDS, Prof. Omo Omoruyi, weekend, advised Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State to back the presidential ambition of Dr Goodluck Jonathan for Edo people to survive in the federation

THE Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, has warned officers and men of Nigerian Army to be wary of inducement from politicians as the 2011 general election approaches, saying any officer or soldier found wanting during the period of the general election would be severely punished.

The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja has been asked to “urgently issue a writ of execution against the Nigerian government and the Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, to secure the full and effective implementation of the ECOWAS Court judgment requiring the government to provide free and compulsory basic education to every Nigerian child.”

As the first set of ex-militants for undergraduate studies in Malaysia traveled out of the country yesterday, High Commissioner to Ghana, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, human rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana, and Senator David Brigidi, have charged the beneficiaries against dragging Nigeria’s name in the mud.