As Christians commence this year Lenten period, today, with the marking of the Ash Wednesday, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has stressed the need for faithful to use the period to seek the face of God on behalf of Nigeria and all Nigerians for a successful general elections.

A Nigerian, Alli Abass Jega, standing trial alongside Azim Aghajani, an Iranian, before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, for arm importation yesterday, told the court that he (Jega) was misled by Aghajani to use his name and office address to bring in the seized consignments of arms and ammunition.

PROVIDENCE averted what would have been a disaster, yesterday, as the aircraft conveying the Vice Presidential candidate of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Mr. Fola Adeola, and other party chieftains to Bauchi for a campaign rally crash landed at the city’s air strip.

As the strike called by the Medical Guild enters its fifth week, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, appealed to the striking doctors to follow the footsteps of their counterparts at the national level who yielded to appeals from well-meaning Nigerians and withdrew their notice to embark on a nationwide strike last Monday.

THE ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday led eight other smaller parties to shun the signing of the Code of Conduct for political parties, jointly drafted by the Independent National Electoral commission, INEC, and the parties.

An Abuja magistrate court, yesterday, remanded in prison custody, one 21-year- old Chidiebere Matthew, brought before it by the police for illegally carrying one locally made pistol and four rounds of live ammunition.

THE recent cancellation of the offer of 75 per cent equity in NITEL to New Generation consortium at a bid price of US$2.5 billion is the latest in a series of failed efforts at selling the national carrier, with stakeholders reacting and offering opinions on the way out of an obvious quagmire.

THE people of Gbekebor in Burutu and Ugborodo communities in Burutu and Warri South-West local government areas of Delta State, have appealed to the Federal Government and its intervention agencies to come to their aid by constructing shore wall to protect their various communities located on the fringe of the Atlantic Ocean from being washed away by the surging ocean waves.

The Federal Government has been urged to absorb Biafran scientists who produced the technological and scientific innovations that sustained their efforts during the thirty months civil war, despite the adverse conditions which they operated.

Only five of the 18 gubernatorial candidates of registered political parties in Imo State honoured the debate organized by the state council of Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, in collaboration with the state branch of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN.