The rank of Nigeria’s founding fathers was further depleted this morning with the passing on of frontline nationalist and elder statesman, Chief Anthony Eromosele Enahoro.

THE Senate and House of Representatives, yesterday, beat a retreat in their confrontation with the nation’s 36 governors over amendment to the Electoral Act that would make the federal lawmakers members of their political parties’ National Executive Committees.

Governor Baba-tunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, presented the 2011 budget proposal of N445.180 billion to Lagos State House of Assembly for approval.

A POWER showdown between the National Assembly and Governors was in the offing last night after the Senate Committee on Constitution Review, SCRC, resolved to uphold provisions of the Electoral Act that has drawn the flaks of the nation’s 36 Governors.

Minister of Water Resources, Chief Obadiah Ando, has said 70 million Nigerians live without access to potable water supply, noting that this represents 6% of world’s 1.1 billion people without safe drinking water.

THE Joint Military Task Force operating in Abia State, yesterday, killed the notorious kidnap kingpin, Mr. Obioma Nwankwo, popularly known as Osisikankwu, who was declared wanted by the police for alleged kidnapping.

If the only problem the next president of Nigeria would solve is the epileptic power supply to the country, he would have pleased many of his compatriots.

UNMOVED by the prediction that Nigeria may disintegrate in five years time, that is, 2015, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, says the nation cannot go under.

Because the machines are not for baking of cakes, those who stole them knew why they did it! An Information Technology, IT, consultant, Femi Olubosi, told Sunday Vanguard that Direct Data Capture, DDC, machines, stolen at the tarmac of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, last Monday, is “useless to those who stole it except, of course, they know what they want to do with it”.

US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer sought damaging information against Nigeria’s former Attorney General of the Federation and Justice Minister to pressure him into dropping lawsuits over a drug trial, a leaked diplomatic cable showed yesterday.

FOLLOWING the theft of the Direct Data Machines imported by INEC, Vanguard investigation has revealed that only insiders with the active collaboration of outsiders could have stolen the machines.

At least five construction workers narrowly escaped death, yesterday, when part of a building still under construction located beside Lagos State Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja suddenly collapsed at about 3.20p.m.

THE Senate, yester day, hit back at national backlash over alleged huge salaries and allowances being earned by members of the National Assembly saying that it was ready to have a salary cut if other arms of government would also subject themselves to similar cuts.

Senate President, David Mark, yesterday described Nigerian airports as the most embarrassing, saying the poor states of the nation’s airports could hamper the realisation of Vision 20:2020.

FORMER Military President Ibrahim Babangida has threatened to pull out of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ahead of the 2011 Presidential election if the PDP failed to adhere to the principles of zoning and rotation as enshrined in its constitution.