Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission, LASIEC, yesterday, organised the third stakeholders’ meeting on conducting free and fair council polls in the state slated for October 22.

THE nation’s move to achieve the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals, may become a mirage if government’s decision ordering NAFDAC operatives out of the nation’s seaports nationwide was not urgently reversed.

Inspector General of Police, Hafiz Abubakar Ringim explained yesterday that the police arrested four editors and three non-editorial staff of The Nation newspapers following a complaint lodged by former President Olusegun Obasanjo who alleged that a letter purportedly written by him to President Goodluck Jonathan which was published by the newspaper was forged.

A petroleum products dealer, Mr. Alade Oyediran has been killed by suspected assassins in Ogbomoso.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, yesterday, in Benin, told visiting leaders of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, led by its president, Mr. Abdulwahab Omar, that the state would soon recruit over 3,000 workers to beef up its workforce.

The protest by placard-carrying women and youths in Joinkrama 4 community, Ahoada West Local Government Area, Rivers State, over alleged insensitivity and disrespect to existing agreement by Shell Petroleum Development Company, entered its fourth day, Thursday.

All 16 gladiators for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations received their confirmation last weekend. And the Confederation of Africa Football will shortly make the draws for the finalists, which include the co-hosts Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, Niger, Angola, Botswana, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Senegal, Tunisia, Zambia, Burkina Faso, Morocco, Libya and Sudan.

Ahead of the Orange CAF Confederation semi-final first leg against Club Africain of Tunisia, Sunshine Stars of Akure coach, Gbenga Ogunbote has said his side will win with a commanding lead when the sides clash in Ijebu -Ode this weekend.

There is little sympathy for under fire Eagles’ coach, Samson Siasia after his ‘disastrous’ outing against Guinea in the Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers in Abuja last weekend. But the former Eagles striker insisted that he was still the best of choice for the Eagles job.

A BATTLE line appears to have been drawn between ace musician, Onyeka Onwenu and Copyright Society of Nigeria, COSON, boss, Chief Tony Okoroji as the former has asked the latter to give account of the N3 million donation made by the Cross River State Government to facilitate the burial rites of the departed songster, Christy Essien-Igbokwe.

SOUTH African owned Nigerian cable and satellite Television and Radio channels distribution giant, Multichoice Nigeria Limited, has dragged the Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria(MCSN) to court following its inability to recognise the latter as a collecting society.

Fast rising music act, Tino Tipsy recently shocked his fans when he turned down a mouth watery N50 million deal and a Range Rover sport automobile from a record label that has kept tab on the star’s success since his debut on the Nigeria music scene.

JIGAWA State was carved out from the Kano State on August 27, 1991 by the administration of former Head of State, General Ibrahim Babaginda.

Hearing resumed yesterday in the suit filed before the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Owerri, by Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, against the declaration of Chief Rochas Okorocha as governor of Imo State.