DESPITE the performance of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in the South West in the National Assembly election, the Defence Minister, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode assured that President Goodluck Jonathan would win the region in the Presidential election on Saturday. Speaking with newsmen, Kayode said there was no cause for alarm as the PDP Presidential candidate would win convincingly in the Saturday polls.

THE daughter of the former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Chief Richard Akunjide, SAN, Oloye Jumoke Akinjide, has accepted defeat in the National Assembly election held last Saturday.

The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, has dismissed as unfortunate reports in a medium (not Vanguard) that the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, was using the agency as a conduit to receive bribes worth over N2.2 billion from oil marketers in the country.

IN an effort to bring about a drastic reduction of gas flare in the country, Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, of Nigeria Limited has signed a contract with Saipem Contracting Nigeria Limited for a pipeline system that will gather associated gas currently being flared for use in the domestic gas market.

Hell was Tuesday, let loose in Tafa, Niger State, when irate youths protesting the avoidable death of passengers in an 18-seater commuter bus took to the streets, touched the office of the Federal Road Safety Commission,FRSC, in Tafa, burnt a Police Patrol van and caused serious damage to property.