SACKED governor of Delta State, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, yesterday stormed Aso Rock, and met with President Gooduck Jonathan behind closed door.

However, the nullification of the 2007 Delta State Gubernatorial Election yesterday claimed its first major victim, with the cancellation of Vice President Namadi Sambo’s proposed visit to the oil rich state.

THE three-day warning strike embarked upon by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, turned bloody in Edo State yesterday, when a trigger happy mobile police officer attached to a Judge from a neighouring state, shot at the state Chairman of the National Union of Air Transport Employees, NUATE, Comrade Godwin Ehikioya, when the union leaders tried to enforce the strike directive at the Benin Airport.

Some youths organisations yesterday raised an alarm that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, purported gentleman agreement on zoning arrangement was a ploy designed by a powerful clique to turn Nigeria into a one-party state, and with intent to continue to hold on to power and perpetually oppress the people.

The Association of Resident Doctors, ARD, of Abia State University Teaching Hospital, ABSUTH, Aba, has vowed to continue the strike its members embarked upon over five months ago, saying doctors would only resume work when the state government implements the new welfare package the association agreed with it.