Ogun State Police Command said, yesterday, that it had arrested a young man Peter (other names withheld) for allegedly defrauding a man under the pretence of selling a car to him through public auction by the Customs Service.

There was pandemonium, yesterday, in Awka when a middle-aged woman escaped death at Ezu River, where over 23 mystery corpses were found few months ago.

A mild drama played out in Orlu, ImoState, when a commercial motorcyclist, a father of two (names withheld), was caught pants down making love to a married woman in a lonely bush.

THE Senate President yesterday asked prayer warriors to embark on prayers and novena for the success of the Super Eagles for the 2014 World Cup competition to be hosted by Brazil as well as the Africa Nations Championship.

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has vowed to defend the Naira. He said he was prepared to use the nation’s foreign reserve to ensure the currency’s stability.

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, in Lagos said the Federal Government would do everything humanly possible for Nigerians to continue to enjoy the full benefits of democracy.

Barely 24 hours after President Goodluck Jonathan officially declared his intention to run for a second term in office, he has started reaching out to prominent groups in the South West to actualise his ambition come 2015.

THe House of Representatives, yesterday, threatened to issue a bench warrant on the Managing Director of Mainstreet Bank Plc, Mrs Faith Turduo Martins, for allegedly sacking 670 staff of the bank without due process.

Worried by the incessant strike by universities and other tertiary institutions, the National Assembly is set to initiate legislative educational policies that would regulate frequent industrial actions in Nigeria.

COUNTRIES of the ECOWAS sub-region are working to adopt a common implementation plan for digital transition as the June 2015 deadline set by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) approaches.

Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State is in the second and final term of office as governor of Delta State. the Governor was last Thursday honoured with the Fellowship of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria in Lagos, the highest award given by the institution. Uduaghan, who is a medical doctor by training on the eve of the award, spoke to a selection of newsmen on issues in the polity including calls by a faction of the Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF that Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala should resign as Minister of Finance, calls for a national conference and his plans to hand over Delta to a credible successor. Excerpts:

IT is now 14 years since Nigeria bade final farewell to military dictatorship and embraced civilian democratic governance. The forthcoming general elections of 2015 will be the fifth general elections in Nigeria since our return to democracy.

CHAIRMEN of the joint committees of House of Representatives on Petroleum Upstream and Gas Resources, yesterday, warned House Committee Chairman on Finance, Rep Abdulmumin Jibrin to stop defending the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, unveiled its strategic plan for 2012-2016 to stakeholders in Bayelsa State aimed at improving the conduct of future elections.

OUR attention had been drawn to an article written by one Kayode Ojo who we understand is not a staff of the Vanguard Newspaper and who could only pass as a guest or a ghost writer who mischievously, arrogantly and in most uncivilized manner, attacked the eminent personalities of Nigeria, including General I.B.M. Haruna (rtd.), from Adamawa State who is of Hausa/Fulani extraction, who was a former Federal Minister of Information under General Murtala Muhammed and who was the General Officer Commanding, (GOC) 2nd Division of the Nigerian Army during the civil war of 1967-1970.