The Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, on Tuesday urged soldiers to be disciplined and alert in order to tackle the nation’s security challenges.

Real Zaragoza a striker, Ikechukwu Uche has said that Coach Samson Siasia has the final say over when to lift the ban imposed on West Brom forward, Osaze Odemwingie for breaking camp rules during the friendly match against Kenya in March.

Whereas Section 7. (1) of the constitution provides that “The system of local government by democratically elected local government councils” is guaranteed many states have habitually violated this sacrosanct provision of the constitution. Governors who would themselves not brook their dismissal by the President supposedly under emergency rule have not found it wrong to dismiss elected local government councils at the least provocation.

The cold war between the erstwhile Deputy Governor of Plateau State, Mrs. Pauline Tallen and her one time political ally, Governor Jonah Jang was warmed up last weekend when during a visit to Shendam, Mrs. Tallen”s home base, the Governor demanded an apology from his erstwhile deputy. Mrs. Tallen who fought the Governor on the platform of the Labour Party during the last governorship election was asked if she would heed the Governor”s counsel during a telephone interview.

FOLLOWING the inauguration of Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN) for a second term he pledged that the second mandate to him was a support for the continuation of the good governance ushered by his first term.