A chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has described the recent arrest of judges by the Department of State Service, DSS, operatives across the country as sacrilegious and a desecration of the judiciary

OIL and gas producing communities in Delta State have warned the state House of Assembly against the dissolution of the board of Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, following the controversy surrounding the N28 billion budget of the commission.

The Technical Director of Chemical Engineering and Construction Company Limited, SMIEC, Engr. Mma Okezie, has expressed shock over the purported invitation of the owner of the company by the Senate Committee on Niger Delta, over alleged abandonment of Shore Production project at Koko, Warri North, Delta State.

To all the doomsday prophets, a word of caution, hope is rising for Nigerian tennis as wild card entrant, Clifford Enosoregbe yesterday achieved the unprece-dented by upsetting eight seed Maciej Smola to reach the men’s singles quarter-final of the Lagos Governor’s Cup Futures 5.

CALABAR—Tragedy struck, yesterday, when suspected cultists engaged a police patrol team in a gun battle at Nkwa Street off Eyamba, Calabar, Cross River State, killing an inspector, Mr. Edet Archibong.

The Federal Government has said it would step on more big toes in its anti-corruption war.

Students at the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, UNEC, yesterday, lashed out at the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Benjamin Ozuba, accusing him of diverting the mandatory N5,000 re-roofing levy foisted on them three years ago.

The trial of seven suspected corrupt judges earlier slated for today has been shifted till next week.

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday swore-in two new Permanent Secretaries into the State Public Service, with a charge on the appointees to add positive values and uphold the tradition of excellence which the State is known for.

Second Republic lawmaker, Dr Junaid Mohammed, yesterday said if Nigeria could arrest 90 per cent of its corrupt judges, the country will be better for it.

THE Senate yesterday decried the state of bad roads across the country and has begun moves to scrap the present Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, FERMA, as the bill passed second reading.

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THE events of the past few days have brought to the fore, what many public administrators(including the rather astute ones) have not truly come to terms with, it is this; that the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999,as amended, creates three arms of government- the legislature, the Executive and the Judiciary; that in a traditional sense, the Legislative, and the Executive are presumed to be “stronger” than the judiciary and for which reason, the judiciary is said to have “neither sword nor purse”.

Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Ralph Uwazuruike faction, has berated the Director General of the Voice of Nigeria, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, over his recent comment that Biafra is no longer feasible, and urged him not to be deceived as the actualization of an independent state of Biafra is near.

As members of Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN (Shi’ite), gathered in Tudun Wadan, Kaduna, in defiance of their ban by Governor Nasir el-Rufai, a mob, mainly of the Sunni Wahabi sect, descended on the home of a local Shi’ite leader in the area, Mallam Muntari Sahabi, and set it on fire.