FOUR formermilitants and one Army Corporal, were, yesterday, arrested by police anti-patrol team along Warri/Sapele Road with firearms.

AS workers across the country mark the workers day, Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala has advised the Governor-elect in Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi to ensure that he implements the welfare workers package he met on ground.

A Police Inspector attached to Enugu State Police Command, Mr. Elias Ikpo, was shot dead last Saturday by a gang of armed robbers operating along Enugu-Onitsha highway.

NOT unexpectedly, incumbent Governor of Plateau State, Jonah David Jang coasted home to victory for a second term of four years in Tuesday’s governorship election. He polled 823,536 to defeat his closest rival, his deputy, Pauline Tallen who flew the banner of the Labour Party and polled 494,975 votes.

DELTA State Police Command, weekend, warned those planning to cause trouble in the state as a result of their dissatisfaction with the outcome of the April 26, governorship poll, that any act of lawlessness would be visited with the full weight of the law

The story of Nigerian agriculture is best read between the lines of its political history. Africa’s most populous nation had an overwhelmingly agricultural economy during the hundred years spent under British colonial rule since 1860, and well into the first decade after its independence.

OYO State Governor-elect, Senator Abiola Ajimobi has warned civil servants, banks and other stakeholders in the state to be vigilant and report any hasty withdrawal from the state treasury.

SEVEN persons were Sunday burnt to death in a ghastly auto accident at the Itobe Federal Highways in Okungboda town, Ofu Local Government Areas of Kogi State.

The outcome of the gubernatorial election in Kwara State and indeed all the other elections of 2011 took many by surprise.

The Lagos State government said it has completed four housing projects across the state in the last one year, while two others are in various stages of completion.

The Lagos State government has unveiled guidelines for a mortgage scheme designed to help residents of the state to own their houses.

Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State has petitioned chairman of the National Judicial Council, NJC, over the conduct of Justice Glays K. Olotu of the Federal High Court, Abuja.

As the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) commences inspection of microfinance banks (MFBs) to ascertain the level of compliance with the CBN’s stated guidelines with regards to the 103 MFBs granted approval in principle, operators in the microfinance sector are thrown into frenzy as fears are heightened that the sledge hammer of the apex bank may fall on MFBs that failed to meet the deadline set by CBN.

ABIA State Labour Party candidate for Ohafia South House of Assembly seat, Mr. Ody Okereke Ajike, has rejected the result of the election on the ground of monumental fraud, stressing that the declaration of the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mba Ukaha, as winner by Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, was an aberration

Nigeria is said to be endowed with abundant human and natural resources. This ordinarily should make it a great nation. The land is fertile.