After spending about 22 months in office as the elected chairmen of their respective councils, Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has ordered the dissolution of all the 16 local governments in Ekiti State, just as the affected council chairmen have vowed to jettison the directive of the state government.

WORRIED by the recent seizure of arms and ammunition in Apapa Ports, Lagos, the Federal Government, yesterday, ordered the beefing up of security at all the nation’s airports and seaports and stricter surveillance at border posts.

IN an apparent state of worry, over the recent seizure of a record quantity of war arms and ammunition, in Lagos, the National Security Adviser, NSA, General Andrew Azazi (rtd), was Thursday locked in over five hours high level security meeting with top security chiefs.

GOVERNMENT health care system in Ogun State was, today, paralyzed as medical doctors in the state under the aegis of the Nigeria Medical Association [NMA] members began an indefinite strike .

FACTS emerged, yesterday, that the 13 containers of rockets, grenades and other weapons intercepted at the Apapa Port, Lagos, by the State Security Service, SSS, were imported into the country with forged documents. The fake documentation aroused the suspicions of security agencies.

GOVERNOR Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State has told the new General Officer Commanding, 2 Mechanised Division, Nigeria Army, Ibadan, Brig.-Gen. Muhammed Abubakar to regard activities of members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, near the barrack as illegal.

COMBINED security operatives, yesterday, intercepted 13 containers laden with arms and ammunition including rocket launchers, catridges and hand grenades at the A P Moller Terminals in Apapa port.

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A brazen attempt by heavily armed robbers to raid the Zenith Bank in Ijebu-Ode was foiled by policemen who killed two of them and arrested three persons of the hoodlums.

NATIONAL Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo was, yesterday, enmeshed in a fresh crisis after members of the National Working Committee, NWC, rose against him alleging high-handedness and usurpation of the NWC’s power.

The House of Representatives adhoc Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution has approved thirty post-election days before the handover date in 2011, just as it has adopted the 150 days recommended by the Muhammed Uwais’ Electoral Review Committee, to allow time for judicial pronouncements on election litigations.