BENIN—Following the recent killings and rising spate of kidnapping in the state, Majority leader of the Edo State House of Assembly, Mr. Philip Shuaibu, weekend, hinted that the House may amend the law on kidnapping in the state with a view to prescribing stiffer sanctions.

Respite last week, came the way of Nigerian couples seeking high standard fertility treatment as St Ives Hospital is offering 50 per cent discounts for a cycle of its Invitro-Fertilisation (IVF) to childless couples who ordinarily wanted the IVF option but canuld not afford to pay for the service.

UGHELLI-NATIONAL Chairman of Oil Producing Areas Association of Nigeria, OPAAN, Chief Ominimini Obiuwevbi, yesterday, called on President Goodluck Jonathan to give priority to the East-West Road project.

In 1999, when ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo mounted the mantle of Nigeria’s leadership, he shunted the Urhobo, the fifth largest ethnic group of Nigeria, from his constituted Federal Executive Council, FEC. This was after the Urhobo nation had massively given him their mandate through the electoral process.

The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos, weekend, vacated the order by the Lagos election petition tribunal sitting in Igbosere, directing the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to permit Mr Cosmas Okoli of the Labour Party, LP, and his forensic experts to inspect and analyse electoral materials used for the April election.