COMMOTION broke out at the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, headquarters in Asaba, yesterday, when a group of vigilant youths almost lynched a female staff of the Commission for allegedly escaping with thumb-printed ballot papers. She was stripped in the process.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, launched a stock taking mechanism to ensure that materials already used in some parts of the country before the postponement of last Saturday’s elections were not used in subsequent elections.

The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has raised an alarm over the safety of its gubernatorial candidate in Akwa Ibom State, Senator John Akpanudoedehe, after he was flown, unaccompanied by any of his aides, in an helicopter to Uyo, yesterday.

BARELY one week after police in Delta State intercepted rocket launchers, dynamites and double barrel guns along Ughelli/Patani road, a local gun manufacturer has been arrested in the state.

A London-based architect, Mrs. Oladele Williams-Oni, yesterday, narrated to an Ikeja High Court, Lagos, how she was defrauded of N17 million by a Shepherd in charge of the Celestial Church of Christ, Genesis Parish, Alagbado, Prophet Israel Ola-Ogundipe, over spiritual help.

THE contests in the three Oyo senatorial district are unarguably the battle of the fittest. It is a battle laced with intrigues, theatrics and all the political wonders that are characteristic of the Pace Setter State. With the exit of the traditional political godfathers the culture of imposition of candidates may have largely been phased out, though muttering here and there over subtle influences of some power brokers continue to resonate.

FINANCE Minister, Olusegun Aganga boasts about the growth of the Nigerian economy with rates that are better than the rest of the world except China and Indian. Last August, Aganga said, “real GDP has been measuring six per cent or higher in the past five years.” Good news but the grim unemployment figures from the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, stated that national unemployment increased from 11.9 per cent in 2005 to 19.7 per cent in 2009, the highest since 2000.

Few hours into the botched National Assembly elections, residents of Lagos witnessed an overwhelming presence of security men in almost all the nooks and crannies of the state.

The high population of three states in the federation pose serious challenges to the provision of basic infrastructure and social amenities by the Federal and state governments

The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has opposed calls in certain quarters for the sack or resignation of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, following the failure of last Saturday’s National Assembly elections.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, implored the Abuja division of the Court of Appeal to expedite hearing in its suit, challenging the Federal High Court judgment that hitherto excluded five states of the federation from partaking in the governorship polls now billed for April 26.

The new Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Barracks (military) Rehabilitation (PCBR), Mrs. Binta Muazu has threatened to terminate the contract of any contractor whose performance falls below the standard set by her committee

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has blamed poor packaging and ignorance of requirement of export goods by Nigerian exporters for the rejection of semi-finished products from Nigeria in international market.

There is no place that can replace the comfort and relaxation the our own homes provide. It becomes therefore imperative that we give our homes a first class touch so that it will at all times be a place that we cherish to be.

THE Allied Powers in the course of the war against the Axis Powers had a vision of the peace they hoped to harvest from the war and the arrangements that would secure the peace resulting from their successful prosecution of the war. The preamble of the Charter of the United Nations indicated this vision.