INSPECTOR-General of Police, Mr. Ogbonna Onovo, yesterday, ordered the Abia and Akwa Ibom commands to fish out abductors of the journalists in the area.

NO fewer than 500 Nigerians are currently serving jail terms for various offences in Switzerland. Also, 1,800 others are living and working legitimately in that country while 1,600 seek asylum annually

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, directed all relevant security agencies to find the where-abouts of the Chairman, Lagos State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Mr Wahaab Oba, and three other journalists who were on Sunday afternoon kidnapped in Abia State with a view to producing them alive.

The Ogun State Command of the Nigerian Police Force on Sunday lost four of its officers to a gang of robbers in Ijesa Ijebu-Illisan road in Ago-Iwoye, Ijebu North Local Government Area of the state.

FOUR executive committee members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, were, yesterday, abducted by kidnappers who attacked them at Umuafouka junction near Ukwakiri in Obingwa Local Government Council of Abia State.

All doubts about the eligibility of President Goodluck Jonathan for the PDP primaries leading to next year’s presidential election were laid to rest yesterday after the party announced that it was throwing open the presidential, governorship and legislative primaries to all aspirants irrespective of their birth place.

Former military President General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has called for the realignment of political forces in the country and for political office seekers to submit themselves to the electorates for scrutiny.

That which she declined to divulge in an interview she granted this writer has been brought to the open. MTV’s Nigerian VJ, Cynthia Okpala is now officially engaged to good-looking hubby….

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, asked the National Assembly to reduce the oil production assumption in the country’s 2010 spending plans to 2.2 million barrels per day, bpd, from 2.25 million, according to a letter to the National Assembly.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, emerged as the first Christian to assume the chairmanship position of D-8, a group of developing countries with predominant Islamic orientations.

OVER 1, 000 ex-militants from the Niger Delta, particularly Bayelsa and Delta states who had converged in 62 eighteen-seater buses stormed the Federal Capital Territory in the early hours of yesterday to protest alleged mismanagement of the Federal Government amnesty programme for ex-militants.

THE four helmsmen: Taiwo Ogunjobi, Sani Lulu, Uchegbulam Amanze and Bolaji Ojo-Oba, who allegedly ran the football house aground were, yesterday, invited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC…

A FEDERAL High Court, yesterday, awarded N15.4billion as special and punitive damages against Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited, SPDC, in favour of Ejama-Ebubu community in Tai Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State for an oil spill that occurred in 1970.

The Federal Government has back down on its decision to ban the national football team from participating in all fifa organised competitions for two years.

BARELY a fortnight after President Goodluck Jonathan expressed dissatisfaction with the secretive manner his late boss, President Umaru Yar’Adua’s ill health was handled, a crack team of security operatives has begun probe into the incident.