The Federal Government has said that it has no plan to stifle freedom of the Press in the country because it was aware that free press was vital to the success of any democracy.

Detained former National Security Adviser, NSA, to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), yesterday, took fresh plea before Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf of an Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama.

The former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday tacitly threw his weight behind the emergence of the next Nigerian president from the South East region of the country.

Chelsea legend, Didier Drogba has been offered an armoured car, regular first-class plane tickets, a luxurious home, a personal translator and £25,000-a-week to sign for Corinthians in Brazil.

Look at me I left the service in 1978 and they are telling me to go and bring documents like letter of first appointment and my first appointment was in 1962

AWKA — FEDERAL Government workers in Anambra State who were beneficiaries of the plots of land for a housing estate at Amansea, Awka have been grumbling following the revocation of the Certificate of Occupancy, C of O, issued to the Federal Government for the land by the Anambra State government.

Immediate past chairman of the Governing Council of the Abia State Polytechnic, Aba, Dr. Chuku Wachuku, has accused the staff unions of opposing every move to sanitize the institution.

Managing Director of Mainstream Energy Solutions, Mr Lamu Audu, has dismissed claims by the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, that low water level was partially responsible for the current gross inadequate power supply in the country.

CENTRE for the Vulnerable and Underprivileged, CENTREP, a rights group in Delta State, has cautioned the Federal Government to be cautious of those it called Niger Delta merchants masquerading as leaders of the region.

Minister of Transportation, Mr Chibuike Amaechi, yesterday, said that the decision of Aliko Dangote to set up a $100 million trucks assembly plant in Lagos was out of frustration due to the country’s railway projects delay.

Ekiti State Governor and Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’s Forum, Mr Ayodele Fayose, in the early morning on Wednesday foiled an attempt by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) from arresting Apostle Johnson Suleiman of The Omega Fire Ministries World wide in Ado Ekiti.

RESIDENTS of Ekogbene, Egrangbene, Abadama and Kalafiogbene communities, Burutu Local Government Area, Delta State, yesterday, threatened to disrupt operations of Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, a subsidiary of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, for allegedly lifting oil clandestinely from a divested oil well, OML 62, in their area.

A faction of the Peoples Democratic Party’s State Working Committee loyal to Governor Ayodele Fayose has been sent packing by the Federal High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti.

A PHILANTHROPIST, Mr Maxwell Ugwu, has donated a re-modelled primary school building to accommodate 300 pupils at the Ntueke in Ideato Local Government Area of Imo State.

THE Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, ISPON, has condemned Nigeria’s dependency on imported software, saying that it is dangerous both to the public and private sectors.