THE original mandate of ASCON was to align the peculiar workings of public bureaucracy to the academic knowledge from the universities and polytechnics.

Tragedy struck on Monday when an iroko tree fell on a bungalow in Umueze Village at Amawbia, near Awka in Anambra, killing one Ikenna Anatuogu, 22.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekiti State has said the postponement of the National Assembly elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has denied them the opportunity of a victory dance.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has commenced moves to penalise vendors to the commission whose failure to supply electoral materials resulted in the postponement of last Saturday’s elections into the National Assembly.

Ahead of the rescheduled 2011 General Elections and in furtherance of his resolve to ensure that the Police do not compromise in the areas of rigging, ballot stuffing and snatching, the Inspector General of Police, Monday, ordered the redeployment of all the Squadron Commanders of the Mobile Police Squadron in the country.