Abia State Police Command has launched an investigation into how a day-old baby boy got missing from a private hospital, Analechi Hospital, located at 5 Ngbaronye/Udi Street, Amuzuku, Umuahia, Abia State.

ARMED soldiers, yesterday, took over most of the nation’s power stations, including Egbin Power Station, as Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, workers threatened to withdraw their services.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Ebele Jonathan sounded hurt when he said Nigerians misunderstood his intentions on a longer term for the President, and possibly governors. He was clear enough and Nigerians understood him clearly too. It was even when he started a defence of the project that Nigerians knew it was seven years, not six as many of them had thought.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, presented a budget estimate of N485.292 billion for 2012 to the State House of Assembly for ratification, saying his administration’s purpose and commitment towards delivering the greatest good to the greatest number of citizens of the state remains unchanged.

BENIN – AS Edo State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, fix January 2012 for its governorship primaries ahead of the 2012 governorship election, former Chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih, has assured governorship aspirants that there will be no imposition of any aspirant on the party.

Barely a week after President Goodluck Jonathan revealed plans to destabilise his administration through terrorist plots, the Federal Government, yesterday, re-assured Nigerians and foreigners living in the country that it was on top of the situation.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was yesterday perfecting fresh plans to checkmate the incumbent governor of Bayelsa State, Mr Timipre Sylva from influencing the outcome of the party’s primaries in the state. This came as there were conflicting reports as to whether the ward congress scheduled for yesterday held or not.

The International Finance Corporation, IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has said it will finance the construction of the second Niger Bridge.

SATURDAY Vanguard, October 8, 2011 carried excerpts of the interview with General Don Idada E Ikponmwen, former Provost Marshall of the Nigerian Army and one time Director of Army Legal Services. The highlight of the interview was titled: “It’s sad, government can’t guarantee security Ikponmwen”.

A Lagos State High Court, Igbosere, has ordered the Ikoyi Prison, Lagos, to produce a 45-year-old police officer, Serg. Ifeanyi Orumgbe, for trial over the alleged killing of one Michael Egwu, allegedly shot during a police stop and search in Festac Town, Lagos.

THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has denied owing the Federation Account about N450 billion, as claimed by the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI.

Palpable fear has gripped residents of Ilorin, kwara state capital, following rising cases of ritual attack which is gradually spreading to the nooks and crannies of the Islamic town. In Sabo-Oke area of the town alone, no fewer than seven people were attacked in the last one month while three of them died before good Samaritans could take them to the hospital for the much needed medical attention.

AS Nigerian children aged five and below continue to die from pneumonia and other pneumococcal disorders, the Federal government has been charged to step up its commitment towards changing the face of pneumonia in Nigeria by urgently ensuring that the pneumococcal vaccine is available and accessible for immunisation of all Nigerian infants at risk.

WARRI- GUNMEN have kidnapped a septuagenarian, Madam Gbubemi, mother of Delta State Commissioner for Oil and Gas, Mr. Mofe Pirah.

National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers, NAAPE, yesterday, grounded all flights of Air Nigeria nationwide for sacking its Head of Maintenance Department, Mr. James Erigba.