VEXED by the media war between the Campaign Organizations of the Presidential aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the National Chairman of the Party, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo has summoned the Director General of the four presidential aspirants of the party to a truce meeting.

Senator George Sekibo in his contribution described Jega’s remarks as a conspiracy against the National Assembly and expressed fears on the ability of INEC to conduct free and credible polls in 2011. He added: “I foresee a situation where people fail in their duty or job and blame it on the National Assembly.”

The Police Tuesday, arrested Mr. Bodunde Adeyanju, Special Assistant to former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Domestic Affairs who has been at large despite several invitations by the federal government panel on the Halliburton scam to report to force headquarters.

THE Senate Tuesday reacted angrily to comments by the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, that the delay in passage of the second amendment to the 1999 Constitution and the Electoral Act by the National Assembly is frustrating the work of the
Commission, as it summoned the INEC boss to appear before a committee of the senate to explain his comments.

NATIONAL Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Attahiru Jega, yesterday, said that if the National Assembly delayed approval of the extension of time lines being sought by the commission beyond November, it would affect its plan for both the registration of voters and the 2011 elections negatively.

After playing key roles in laying the foundation for Nigeria’s post-independence education sector, former Education Minister, Prof. Aliu Babatunde Fafunwa, Monday bade the living goodbye. He died in the early hours of today, in an Abuja hospital, 18 days after his 87th birthday.

THE Yoruba Council of Elders, YCE, Monday, called on the Northern Political Leaders Forum not to heat up the polity by its recent statement calling on President Goodluck Jonathan to resign or be impeached.

The Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, yesterday, commenced a nationwide collection of signature of its members that would partake in a planned one million-man protest rally against the spate of insecurity in Nigeria.

CBN Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi said in Washington on Saturday that he has no doubt in his mind that all the former manager directors of the rescued banks facing trial in Nigeria will go to jail.

The Director-General, Ibrahim Babangida Presidential Campaign Organisation, Chief Raymond Dokpesi said yesterday that security agencies now investigating the Abuja bomb blasts should look elsewhere for the brains behind the explosions as he knew nothing about the blasts that killed at least 10 Nigerians on the occasion of the nation’s 50th Independence Day anniversary.

FORMER Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Oceanic International Bank Plc, Mrs. Cecilia Ibru, was yesterday, convicted and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment on a three count charge of negligence, reckless grant of credit facilities running into billions of dollars and mismanagement of depositors’ funds by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos.

THE Senate, yesterday, declared that the purported order of the Federal High Court in Lagos stopping the National Assembly from carrying out further amendment to the 1999 Constitution was not binding on the National Assembly because no court of law can stop the legislature from carrying out its constitutional functions.

The Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee, LPPC, Thursday, suspended the immediate past Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Michael Kaase Aondoakaa, from using the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN).

DIRECTOR-General of the Jonathan/Sambo Campaign Council, Ambassador Dalhatu Tafida, yesterday, asked Adamu Ciroma, leader of the Northern Political Leaders Forum, NPLF, to retract the impeachment threat on President Goodluck Jonathan saying it is “misplaced.”

Five female Youth Corp members, who were kidnapped on the 16th of September, by unknown armed men at about 9. 30pm at their Corpers Lodge residence at Umuogba Community Secondary school, Omuma Local Government area of Abia state, were yesterday rescued in a joint operation carried out by men of the Nigeria Police and the military.