The decision of the Abia State Government to lay off non-indigenes in her civil service has been flayed by Ohaneze Ndigbo and the Enugu State House of Assembly who say that it can jeopardize unity among the people of the Southeast.

POLITICAL developments and governance in Edo State since 1999 have clearly shown how unfortunate the state, popularly referred to as the “Heartbeat of the Nation”, has been without sincere and committed governors to direct its affairs and lead it to the proverbial Promised Land.

Glo 1, which was at the West African Information Communication and Technology Congress (WAFICIT) exhibition and conference held in Lagos last week drew high profile visitors, including captains of industries and government officials.

The reality today translates to the fact that it should be abundantly clear to us, that the era and long-addicted habit of physically and blindly chasing the containers and cargo packages at all our import terminals and air/land boarders and throwing away the content of the manifest documents that represent the knowledge-base and real world inside the containers, must be over by now.

POlICEMEN attached to Joint Boarder Patrol, Ilaro, Ogun State have arrested seven suspected members of a robbery gang, among them a female, and recovered three locally -made pistols and eleven cartridges from them.