Senator Onyeka Okoroafor, a Third Republic federal lawmaker from Abia State, is a foundation member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Currently the chairman of the Board of Governors of Federal Polytechnic, Offa, in Kwara State, he became a national figure of note when in the Third Republic, he opted to be jailed by the late General Sani Abacha military regime, rather than join his fellow senators in the defunct National Republican Convention, NRC, to work against the realisation of late Chief MKO Abiola’s presidential mandate.

Professor I. B. Umoh, a Fellow of the Nigeria Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, FNSBMB, is dead, aged 66.

PRODUCTION has resumed at the Delta Steel Company, DSC, Ovwian-Aladja, Delta State, after a four-day interruption, caused by the collapse of the Steel Melting Shop, SMS, a vital production component of the company.

As one of CISCO’s most esteemed partners in West Africa, CWG Ghana the West African regional arm for the Computer Warehouse Group, joined other CISCO senior executives and its customers in Accra to discuss the new trends and solutions coming from the World’s leading technology and Networking Solutions Company.

BETWEEN 6am and 9:30am of Tuesday, October 4, 2005, the atmosphere in Ojuelegba, was its usual boisterous self.