Assistant Inspector-General of Police Zone 9, Umuahia, Afiz Ringim, the new Inspector-General of Police, who was posted to the zone on August, 28, 2009, was at one time Commissioner of Police, Adamawa State.

A 33,000 litre truck loaded with product suspected to be petrol, yesterday went up in flames in Badagry area of Lagos, burning an unidentified man to death while others sustained varying degrees of burns. A total of 22 vehicles were also affected.

PORT HARCOURT—NO death has generated more serious attention in Rivers State in the last five years than that of the former Commander of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, and repentant militant leader, Soboma George. He meant different things to different people in the state and beyond.

Only a few days ago, they were landlords in their own right. Some were wives of landlords and others their children.

He was asked if he really intends to sue the Socio-Economic Rights And Accountability Project that has been harassing him over the Okigbo report, as threatened by his media aide, Kazeem Afegbua.

Attempts to stop last Monday’s Competency Test among Senior Federal Government civil servants failed even as those who led the protests did not only register but indeed participated in the test. The test was written but the civil servants are not yet done with their protestation against what they described as an arbitrariness and insisted that the result of the test must not be used in place of promotion examination.

UP TILL yesterday, it was still accusation and counter-accusation between Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) and the United Ufuoma Fish Farmers Association, Ekpan in Uvwie local government area of Delta State over the July 22 pollution of the largest fish farm in the Niger-Delta with about 6,000 fish ponds.

Professor Okereke-Onyiuke and Alhaji Dangote, among others, purchased billions of Transcorp shares at fifty kobo initially; all the shares were later sold at N7.00 or more to the rest of us at great profits to themselves. Nobody heard any noise while the going was good for the conspirators and their God-father Obasanjo.

TEARS flowed freely yesterday evening in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital following the electrocution of an 18 year-old girl, Hanatu Saraki,during the disconnections of power lines by debtors of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) within the metropolis.

The legislators said it was not possible to amend the constitution again. But they created a window for President Jonathan. They let it be known that the newly appointed national chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, would have to go public to make a request for the amendment of the Electoral Act, for the process to begin. Specifically, they said there were some aspects of the Electoral Act that also needed to be amended.