Following the successful conduct of the 2011 general election in most parts of the country, Professor Omo Omoruyi is today a happy man. The former Director General of the Centre for Democratic Studies, CDS, spoke to Vanguard last week in Benin City and urged Nigerians to commend President Goodluck Jonathan for the successful polls.

IN spite of the improvements recorded in the conduct of the 2011 general polls compared to past elections, about 800 Nigerians were killed in post-2011 election-related and communal violence in northern parts of the country, the Human Rights Watch, HRW, has said.

WORKERS in the nation’s petroleum sector have asked the National Assembly to halt all processes leading to the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, until after May 29, 2011, expressing fears that the rush and controversy surrounding alleged demand for $10 million gratification before passage of the Bill could lead to a shoddy job.

THE creek war in the NigerDelta between the Joint Task Force, JTF, on the Niger Delta and militants, led by “General” John Togo, which had kept the nation on edge in the last one week, came to a dramatic end, yesterday, with the former militant leader accepting defeat and abandoning his camp, known as Israel Barracks in Delta State.

WE are under the impression the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, makes its policies in the interest of the people. Our shock at the haste towards a cashless economy centres on this impression.

THE Federal Government last week inaugurated a 22-man probe panel that would conduct full scale investigation of the ‘remote and immediate’ causes of the violence that followed the victory of President Goodluck Jonathan in parts of the North last month.

EASTER 2011 has come and gone and another is a year away. We have so ritualized Easter that the import of the event it celebrates is lost sight of. We have turned it into reminiscing.

The absence of members of the Chris Green-led Technical Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation stalled the submission yesterday of the Super Eagles team list that would lock horns with Argentina in June 1 international friendly.

DESPITE the commencement of loading of products at the Pipeline and Product Marketing Company, PPMC, in Warri, Delta State, following the recent fire explosion, which gutted three Islands, product diversion is still being perpetrated as fuel scarcity bits harder in the state.

AGGRIEVED members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ondo State yesterday invaded the party’s secretariat and sacked the workers and members of the State Working Committee, SWC, to protest the controversial ministerial list and other nominees from the state drawn by the party leaders.