The Federal High Court 1 sitting in Awka, Anambra State, presided over by Justice Isah Bature Gafai, has served a notice of committal on the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Assistant Inspector-General of Police, AIG, Zonal 9, Umuahia, state Commissioner of Police and chairman of Ogbaru Local Government Area for failing to comply with its directive.

PIQUED by the spate of road accidents caused by excessive smoke emitting vehicles and their damaging effect on the environment, Lagos State Government has concluded plans to commence emission tests for vehicles plying the metropolis, next year.

An Abuja High Court, yesterday, awarded N7.5 million in favour of Godson & Godman Ventures Limited, a media consultancy and publishing firm run by the former editor of Daily Times, Mr. Ken Ugbechie, against the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Hajia Ladi Ibrahim, a Kogi delegate at the ongoing national conference and former Auditor-General in Kogi, has called for true federalism for Nigeria to attain equity, fairness and justice.

ABEOKUTA—Barely 48 hours after the wards congresses of the All Progressives Congress were held in Ogun State, National Assembly caucus of the party protested alleged electoral malpractices.

ANYONE with an ear to the ground probably would have heard quite a bit about the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. If the minister has not heard, there has been quite a groundswell of murmuring around town about how she sits atop the wealth of the nation and not allowing others a piece of the action, whatever that means. If you think that the complaints against the minister are coming from the opposition camps alone, then you are mistaken. Even from her native Bayelsa, there is a creeping opposition against their daughter. It really baffles.

A court-verdict ordered that 50 million naira compensation should be paid to the suspended Central Bank Governor for his unlawful detention for 24 hours. How much compensation should be paid for the senseless deaths of innocent job-seekers?

ARIZONA’S Republican Senator, John McCain, is a rarity in politics. He speaks his mind, no matter who is being comforted or afflicted. With him, you do not have to fear being taken through a labyrinth of circumlocution and rhetoric on issues. So, when he castigated President Obama and called him the “most naïve president” in U.S. history on foreign policy, and more directly for not standing up to Russia’s Vladimir Putin on his annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea, Senator McCain meant what he said and said it as he saw and understood it.

LAGOS State government said 1,015 offenders have been sentenced to various terms of community service across the 12 magisterial districts of the state, in the last 100 days.

Pamodzi Sports Marketing (PSM) have announced that Friesland Campina WAMPCO are the official Milk of the second Okpekpe 10 kilometre road race slated to begin on May 3.