THE 2011 elections dealt women a devastating electoral blow, especially at the National Assembly. The political mileage women recorded between 1999 and 2007 was eroded this year.

The newly in-stalled Oba of Ketuland in Koshofe Area, Oba Isiaka Oyero Balogun, has expressed the unalloyed support of Ketu indigenes and residents to Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State.

THE 5th session of the Edo State House of Assembly was, yesterday, in Benin proclaimed with the election Mr. Uyigue Igbe, representing Oredo West constituency, as the new Speaker.

LEADERS of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta Central Senatorial District, Delta State, resolved at a meeting, weekend, in Warri, that the two warring political groups in the area, Urhobo Political Forum, UPF, led by the party’s senatorial candidate in the last elections, Chief Ighoyota Amori and Urhobo Consultative Forum, UCF, headed by a former commissioner, Chief Tom Amioku, should, henceforth, collapse their separate structures and work together for the progress of the party in the senatorial district.

Abuja Former Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Hon. Nduese Essien has said that the Ministry could not meet its mandate of lands and housing delivery to the citizenry because of bureaucratic bottleneck which prevented the ministry from accessing the lands acquired by the Federal Government in the various states and the Federal Capital Territory