It was undoubtedly the most spicy scandal to smear the clean crisp image that Speaker Aminu Tambuwal had so much sought to build.

It cannot be over emphasised that cancer and its destructive effects are very much in Nigeria. The scourge and its ravaging effects have long been a recurring decimal and several Nigerian families have experienced the agony of losing relations to the disease.

There is something eerie and surreal about the rationalisation by Awo and General Gowon that the use of mass starvation was a means of quickly ending the war.

President Goodluck Jonathan has directed the governors of Rivers and Bayelsa states as well as elders and leaders of the host communities involved in the dispute over oil wells to cease media hostilities.

THE reconstituted Edo State Governorship Petition Tribunal, headed by Justice Muazu Pindinga, commenced sitting in Benin, yesterday, soliciting the cooperation of all the parties in order to dispense with the matter within the stipulated time.

Indigenous Marginal Field, MF producer, Energia Limited, said it hoped to increase oil production from its Oil Mining Lease, OML 56, to 10,000 barrels per day, bpd, by 2013. Current capacity from the block is put at 5000 bpd and expected to inch higher to 7,000bpd by mid-December.

Security agencies have been urged to do everything possible to fish out the aggressors and invaders of the reported violence around the Otumara Flow Station in Warri South-West Local Government Council Area of Delta State.

The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, said yesterday that the flood that ravaged parts of the country killed no fewer than 363 persons and created 2.1 million internally displaced persons (IDPs).

THE High Court in Benin will on November 15, hear the contempt case filed by the people of Oghede Community of Ovia North-East Local Government Area of Edo State, against the Commanding Officer of 322 Artillery Regiment of the Nigerian Army, Ekenwa Barracks, Benin City.

he Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Maryam Aloma Mukhtar, yesterday, declined to administer oath of office on one of the newly appointed justices of the Appeal Court.