Facts emerged yesterday that there was no exchange of gunfire between the police and kidnappers in Unuaze village during the rescue of Warri- based transporter, his brother and operations manager by the police in Uromi, Edo State.

A mysterious fire outbreak has turned the Appeal Court Calabar which was the first Supreme Court building in Nigeria into a debris.

Arrangements are in top gear to relocate the Police Headquarters, Federal Prisons and Imo State University, Owerri.

The FCT Administration has yesterday said that 130,090 vehicles owners were arrested in Abuja for various traffic offences just as the Federal Capital Territory impounded 23,593 commercial motorcycles a.k.a Okada in Abuja metropolis.

I watched the punctured imageries of the so-called government induced debate at the Muson Centre in Lagos penultimate week, and I could see how difficult it was for the protagonists of subsidy removal to sell their unpopular motive.

Chief Philip Asiodu, 77, has paid his dues as a very articulate Nigerian leader. He became Permanent Secretary at the age of 31. His retirement from service in 1975 when he was Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Energy was believed to be mischievous and premature. In this interview with Saturday Vanguard, he picked holes in the then post-Gowon military regime. Excerpts:

Roy Egekwu is the first runner up in the just concluded MTN Project Fame season 4 competition. He is a graduate of University of Benin, popularly known as UNIBEN. He studied Education Economics and Statistics and graduated in 2007. Before the competition, he worked at Mega plaza in a Communication Company called Moon Walker at the Lagos Island as a Customer Service official.

The return of former Super Eagles captain, Stephen Keshi as coach of the team has been described as a good development which would resuscitate football in the country.

Former Super Eagles player, Peter Nieketien has termed 2011 as the worst year in the history of football in Nigeria.

POLITICAL attention will focus on three states in the Niger Delta region in 2012 because of the governorship election slated for Bayelsa, Edo and Cross Rivers states. Already, tension is mounting in these states. In Bayelsa and Cross Rivers states, more of the battle to clinch the number one seat have been revolving around key players within the ruling Peoples Democratic party….

The Lagos State House of Assembly has passed the 2012 Appropriation bill just within a month and two weeks after the budget was presented to it by the state governor, Babtunde Fashola.The budget, which was originally N485.292 when it got to the House, was however increased by N6billion to arrive at a total of N491.827.

Sports, they say ‘is the opium of the people’ but Alhaji Mohammed Halilu, 1st Vice President, Nigerian Weightlifting Federation, NWF believes that it has not given Nigerians the desired joy this year.

Some newspapers were agog with the recent marriage of Chinedu Ikedieze, aka, Aki but that news is already becoming stale. The most current gist now is that Osite Iheme, aka, Paw Paw, like his friend Aki has equally found love or so it seems.

Former Bayelsa Chairman Felix Beke has urged the Nigeria Premier League, NPL Board led by Victor Baribote to come out with better plans to improve the league next season rather than indulge in so much crisis.

ABUJA- There is growing fear that the Boko Haram Islamic fundamentalist sect which is believed to have sponsored the suicide attack on St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, Madalla, Niger State on Christmas day may strike again on New Year day.