A property belonging to the former Chief Whip of the Senate and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Rowland Owie, was yesterday, demolished by the Edo State Government.

UGHELLI— NIGERIAN youths have been urged to come up with ideas that would further promote peace and development in the country.

Biafra ended in January 1970. That is 41 years ago. But the temptation to draw public attention to a striking similarity it shares with today’s Nigeria is irresistible.

GOVERNOR Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State yesterday announced the setting up of a Truth Commission to look into the cases of the killings in the last administration just as he declared that the government would soon set up visitation panels to tertiary institutions in the state to ascertain the state of affairs in the institutions.

ANGLICAN Bishop of Umuahia, Reverend Ikechi Nwosu, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to order the reduction of military personnel on the streets in order not to portray the nation as being under military rule.

SOLDIERS of Operation Jubilee, operating in Abia State to flush out kidnappers and other criminal elements have arrested a couple, Pastor Josiah Iroegbu and his wife Peace for alleged kidnapping and child trafficking.

These two teach lessons that should be appreciated by elites who rule through regimes tailored to the measure of their persons.

A Niger Delta activist, Mr. Frank Akiefa, has said that the Niger Delta region suffered its worse underdevelopment from Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, an interventionist agency in the long neglected region under the current Managing Director, Mr Chibuzor Ugwoha.

Nigerians from all walks of life have been enjoined to advocate for the welfare and socio economic rights of the elderly in society, if the essence of true national development is to be garnered.

The Ikwerre Traditional Rulers Council, Rivers State, has urged the Federal Government to get to the root of the bomb blast, which rocked the UN building in Abuja. The traditional rulers want sponsors of the heinous crime, fished out with a view to punishing and stamping out the embarrassing act

IRRI community in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State has petitioned the Police Service Commission over the killing of about 26 persons in a power tussle by a killer gang, allegedly formed by a former leader of the town.

THE 100 days of Governor Sullivan Chime’s second term administration in Enugu State can rightly be described as a dull moment. The activities of the government especially in the development of infrastructure had been too slow when compared to the first tenure that witnessed aggressive road habilitation and reconstruction within Enugu capital city.

Determined to contribute to the reduction of the country’s housing shortfall put at a staggering 16 million units, Messrs Pilot Communications Limited,

“The new tenancy law in Lagos as well as the high taxes and charges in processing the certificate of occupancy, C of O, consent and building approvals are disincentives to housing in Lagos State”. This is the official position of Lagos-based estate surveyors and valuers.

ABUJA – The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, Dr. Sam Amadi, has said that there has been little or no difference in the state of power supply in the country since the power reform was initiated by former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s government in 2005.