Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has called for vigilance in subsequent elections in the country, saying mischief makers who attempted to rig the re-run election in Etsako Central were yet to accept the logic of the ballot box.

THE Ministry of Finance, yesterday, said that toxic assets from banks have grossed N1.5 trillion, even as Chairman of the Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, revealed that the banks were burdened with bad loans to the tune of N450 billion.

The death toll in the measles epidemic ravaging Oweikurogha community in Bayelsa State has hit 25.
This is coming against the backdrop of assurances by the state government yesterday said it had restricted the epidemic from spreading to neighbouring settlements on its coast line in the Southern Ijaw local government area of the state.

Though the House of Representatives has formally agreed not to delve into the controversy surrounding President Umaru Yar’Adua’s refusal to formally write the National Assembly on his long medical leave to pave way for an acting President, it would appear that no fewer than 200 members of the House are regrouping to insist that the President bows to section 145 of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

A human rights activist, Mr. Bamidele Aturu, yesterday, dismissed as illegal, unconstitutional, immoral, unconscionable and a total sham, the resolution passed by the Federal Executive Council FEC, declaring President Umaru Yar’Adua fit to continue governance.