In this concluding part of the interview with Professor Omo Omoruyi of the then Centre for Democratic Studies, CDS, you would read about what General Ibrahim Babangida told Olu Falae and Papa Adekunle Ajasin when they met. You would also read about how Prof. Omo Omoruyi escaped assassination. But who were those behind the attempt on his life? Why is Omoruyi still carrying eight pellets of bullets in his body since 1994? How did Omoruyi survive cancer? He is a survivor and you only need to read his story and then understand and, perhaps, convince yourself about values and virtues of being a public office holder in a country where anything can happen.

The United Nations, UN has disclosed that Nigeria is now a major importer of forest products with an overall 3.5 % deforestation rate.
In 2002, the imports of forest products alone cost the $123 million even though Nigeria has abundant forest resources.

CP Anyeni also said his command was able to foil a kidnap attempt on an 11 year-old, Nonso Nwagu of Nsokere village in Ezza South local government. The incident took place after his father, Emeka Nwagu sent him to buy kerosene at a nearby shop. He was trailed and kidnapped by some hoodlums on a motorcycle. “The police were alerted and they immediately swung in action. The suspects were given a hot pursuit and later arrested at Ukwuachi in Ikwo LGA. The victim was however rescued unhurt,” disclosed Ayeni.

Onyenachi Ugochukwu who operates with fake names like; Akinoye Akinwale etc, said he was very sorry for Florence for falling into their trap. “I feel very sad for Florence because I was the one that tricked her into the whole mess. I am a good Christian and I pay my tithe regularly. But I have to survive. Each time Florence brings money, I feel for her because what we normally show her as our own part of the deal was not real money. They are fake notes photocopied for the purpose.

President Goodluck Jonathan has reiterated his commitment to the conduct of a credible general election next year, devoid of political sentiments. He said only the best candidates elected by the people would emerge as leaders.

THE dust generated by these recent incidents had hardly died down when last week street hawkers on the ever-busy Port Harcourt-Aba road clashed with men of the Rivers State Task Force on Eradication of Street Trading. They reportedly snatched the rifle of a Police Corporal attached to the task force.

No reasonable Nigerian can at this time pretend to be in any doubt about the fact that arrangements are in top gear to amend or to alter the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999.

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, will next month, in Ibadan, Oyo State, elect its national officers, to run the
affairs of the association for the next two years. Unlike in 2008, when the President of the association emerged without a formal contest, two prominent Senior Advocates of Nigeria, Chief Joe-Kyari Gadzama and Mr Joseph Daudu, are slugging it out for the position, which had been zoned to the North.

As a prelude to the forthcoming elections in Nigeria, a lot of political slogans and sobriquets have been coined to entice and/or lure voters into casting their preferences for some candidates and/or their respective political parties. One of such political coinages is the now much advertised “one man one vote” slogan.

The NBA Delegates’ Election 2010, which is to produce the next President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, for the next 2 years, needs a diligent, dedicated, upright, transparent and devoted patriot with tremendous international exposure to lead it into the 2nd decade of this century.

When in 2007 the story of two Chinese expatriates that were kidnapped by alleged gun men broke, it shook the landscape of Anambra state while a section of the public wished it away as one of those incidents that take place in the Niger Delta, another school of thought became apprehensive of its implications in the Nigerian Chinese relations.

On June 3, this year, a five member panel of the Supreme Court fixed October 10 for definite hearing in two separate appeals challenging the verdict of an Abuja Federal high court which declared Mr Emmanuel Obot as the candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the 2007 poll into the Uyo constituency seat of the National Assembly.

This is a land dispute between two communities in Imo State: The Umuchoke Community of Dikenafai, Ideato South LGA of Imo State and the Umuabor Community of Dikenafai aforesaid. The dispute over a vast area of land of which the land in dispute in this case forms a part started 63 years ago in 1947 at the Northern Isu Native Court in Civil Suit No. 301/47.

The problem of this nation is greed and avarice. Greed, greed, greed, everybody is looking for money by all means. This won’t continue for ever. It has to stop somewhere, it has to stop some day….

FROM the 36 states and Abuja, they converged in Asaba, the Delta State capital for the 4th quadrennial delegates conference of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, one of the affiliates of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC.