Lagos State Govern-ment has suspended the restriction order on movement for the monthly sanitation exercise on October 30 and November 27, to allow for free movement of examination materials, invigilators and the students that will be partaking in the November/ December 2010 National Examination Council, NECO, examinations.

National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, yesterday, gave Chevron Nigeria Ltd till November 1 to reinstate its sacked members or face an industrial action.

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has arrested a 60-year-old man (names withheld) at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, for drug trafficking.

DARE- deviled armed robbers, today, in Ekpoma, the administrative headquarters of Esan West Local Government Local Area of Edo State attacked a first generation bank in the town and left on its trail four dead persons.

CUSTOMS Area Controller (CAC) of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Comptroller Usman Kankara Bello, has disclosed that his command recently foiled an attempt to kidnap two persons in Abuja, leading to the arrest of the suspected kidnappers in a bush along Abuja-Keffi Road.

MORE facts emerged yesterday on the remarriage of the General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor William Folorunsho Kumuyi, 18 months after the demise of his first wife, Sister Biodun.

CONTINUING intrigues among the four allied Northern presidential candidates may have prompted the Mallam Adamu Ciroma led 17 Wise Men committee to defer its choice candidate to confront President Goodluck Jonathan for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential ticket.

Former Governor of Enugu State, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, was, yesterday, re-arraigned before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a 124-count charge of alleged money laundering.

THE crisis engulfing the National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, may have pitched President Goodluck Jonathan in a quandary between heeding his rule of law mantra and protecting the interests of some governors.

A FOUNDING member of ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from Abia State, Prince Benjamin Apugo, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to drop his presidential ambition in 2011, and respect the zoning formula of the party, which is enshrined in the party’s constitution by the founding fathers.

The process of consultation between Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the National Assembly on how to get additional time for the conduct of a credible free and fair election concretised, yesterday, with the approval of the second alteration of the 1999 Constitution.

AS the battle for the Agodi Government House in 2011 continues, the ex-Deputy Governor of Oyo State, Alhaji Gbolarumi Azeem has told his former boss, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala to be getting ready to leave the office.

Speakers of North Central State Houses of Assemblies have declared their support for the 2011 election bid of President Gookluck Jonathan, insisting that the geo-political zone stands to benefit more in terms of socio-economic development under the Jonathan/Sambo presidency

The House of Representatives yesterday said the recent call by the Inspector General of the Police, Alhaji. Hafiz Ringim, for scrapping of Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDS, was an affront on the National Assembly which made the law legalising the Corps.

A frontline governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kwara State, Engr. Sunday Adebayo Babalola, has enjoined the party leaders and other stakeholders to ensure that the party produced the next governor from Kwara South Senatorial District in the interest of fairness, justice and fair play