Indications emerged in Abuja yesterday that arrangements have been concluded by the Force Criminal Investigations department to arraign the Rivers State Majority Leader Mr. Chidi Lloyd today (Wednesday) before the Rivers state high court.

A 33-year-old man, Kenneth Ugwuanyi, Monday, appeared before an Ojo Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly stealing a tricycle belonging to one Adewale Bamgbose, his colleague.

Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister for Justice, Bello Adoke, and the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Alhaji Bukar Aji, yesterday, enjoined civil servants to shift from culture of secrecy to transparency in the conduct of government affairs.

MONDAY, July 29 will go down as a special day in the history of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). It was a day that the arrowheads in the rekindled crisis that ravaged the party for about a year – Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State and factional National Chairman, Chief Victor Umeh, decided to sheathe their swords in the interest of the party.

Except issues around legal framework, data security, key public infrastructure among others were resolved urgently, Nigeria’s quest for e-government implementation in the 21st century knowledge society may be derailed.

PATIENCE can carry a placard and decide to go on the street of Port Harcourt alone or with her side kicks, if she so pleases and nobody would be bothered. But she can’t and must not employ the apparatus of her husband’s office to do that.

HUNDREDS of passengerswere stranded at the Benin Airport, Edo State, yesterday, after the sealing of administrative building of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, by Edo State Board of Internal Revenue Service, ESBIRS. The board alleged failure to remit the sum of N15million from the Pay As You Earn, PAYE, of its staff to the state government.

HISTORY was made penultimate Friday at the National Institute for Oil Palm Research, NIFOR, in Edo State when five persons who were sponsored to be trained on how to build modern oil processing machines at the institute by the Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta, PIND, graduated.

THE crisis rocking the Oodua Peoples’ Congress, OPC, deepened over the the weekend as founder of the group, Dr Frederick Fasehun and National Coordinator of the group, Otunba Gani Adams bickered over Fasehun’s recent hobnobbing with Major Hamza Al-Mustapha.

Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha, said yesterday, that members voted in favour of the 87 clauses in the on-going constitutional amendment in consideration of the yearnings of the people.

ABUJA—FOLLOWING the alarming rate of motor accidents and deaths on the nation’s high ways, the Presidency is partnering with the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, RTEAN, to check the wanton loss of innocent lives, even as the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, said no fewer than 1,936 lives were lost to road accidents between January and June this year.

WARRI—THE Itsekiri National Youth Congress, INYC, has warned against politicising the killing of 12 Itsekiri and the burning of seven villages by some Ijaw militants of Egbema extraction.

The Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta code-named ‘Operation Pulo Shield’, said it has arrested 608 suspected oil thieves in 594 raids carried out between January and June.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC says it has concluded plans to adopt satellite services in the proposed review of the electoral boundaries and constituencies in the country.

A 32-year-old cripple, Mustapha Umar, was yesterday arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate’s court, for allegedly stealing N42,000 belonging to one Margaret Nwachukwu.