THE Chairman, Delta State Chapter of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Mr Mike Akusu, angry with the scarcity of some essential petroleum products in the state, which had caused long queues at service stations, has called on the management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to make kerosene and diesel available to its mega stations across the state.

The Athletics Federation of Nigeria was thrown into a frenzy Wednesday, after entering into $150,000 (about N25 million) contract with a Chinese oil company, FINOPEC.

The Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Calabar, Cross River State, has granted the request by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to include the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, among the list of its witnesses for the House of Representatives election for Calabar Municipality/Odukpani Federal Constituency.

IT is not often that I agree with Nasir El-Rufai. During his tenure as Nigeria’s privatization Tsar; as minister of the FCT and member of the Economic Team of the Obasanjo administration, I wrote critical pieces about his over-zealous commitment to the sale of Nigeria’s patrimony; his often inhumane implementation of policies as minister plus his gung-ho attitude to the fight against perceived enemies of Olusegun Obasanjo, especially then Vice President, Atiku Abubakar.

The 507 science graduates recently recruited by Lagos State government for teaching job, yesterday, stormed the office of Governor Babatunde Fashola of the state in Alausa, Ikeja, to protest non-issuance of appointment letters by the state government.

MANY members of the immediate past cabinet are ontheir way back to the new federal cabinet being constituted as the security screening for the ministerial nominees formally commenced yesterday.

FORMER Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State and capital market operators said yesterday that Nigeria as a country has lost a national asset with the death of the Group Managing Director of Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank), Mr. Tayo Aderinokun.

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, yesterday, turned a valedictory court session that was held in honour of the retired Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Daniel Dantsoho Abutu, to a tribunal of sort, as it openly slammed the incumbent CJ of the High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta, saying the courtesy visit he made to the office of Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, was questionable.

ABUJA—Senate ranking rules, which led to the emergence of Senate President, David Mark, and his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, will again be applied in the allocation of offices and seats at the chamber, Vanguard learnt yesterday.

Imo state Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has assured the Management of Heartland of his unflinching support for the club. This is even as the Management has placed the players on half salary till the fortunes of the club
improve. This much was revealed by General Manager of the club, Fan Ndubuoke.

THE Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, said the achievements of the immediate past governor of Kano State, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, prompted the Kano Emirate Council to appoint him as member and Sarduana Kano.
He also noted that this was done to make Shekarau contribute to decisions of the Emirate.

A section of the Bauchi State Election Petitions Tribunal building was yesterday gutted by a mysterious fire.
The incident which caused panic in the state, started shortly before the inaugural sitting of the tribunal.

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ondo State and the ruling Labour Party, LP, are at loggerhead over the defection of the pioneer state Chairman of the PDP, Col Babatunde Awodeyi (Rtd) to the LP.

The Nigeria Football Federation has dispatched to world football-governing body FIFA, a list of 30 players as Nigeria’s provisional list for the FIFA U-20 World Cup taking place in Colombia from 29th July – 20th August, 2011.

I present this outline largely for the singular benefit of Christian Brother Nathan Oduwole who phoned in from Abuja, entreating me to make myself clear on the subject of demons haunting pro boxing, carried in my last week’s column.