Rivers State government has donated three brand new fire tenders to Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa.

FOUR ex-militants standing trial at the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, have urged the Federal Government to order their release, as they were arrested for an offence allegedly committed before the presidential amnesty granted repentant militants in the country.

In my column in The Punch on Tuesday 9 March 2010, I left an unusual footnote, titled, The bile this time. It was a subdued response to the wild allegations against me in the 7,000-word plus petition by the former Editor of the Punch, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, who was forced to resign by the management of the company for conduct unbecoming of his office. My restraint was not because I could not defend myself or because I was guilty.

LEGAL luminary, Professor Itse Sagay (SAN), weekend lamented that the 1999 constitution of Nigeria could not provide the answer to the failure of ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua to transmit a letter to the president of the senate or speaker of the House of Representatives informing them of his inability to perform his duties or that he was proceeding on a vacation.

The Speaker, Enugu State House of Assembly, Mr Eugene Odoh, has condemned the slow pace of rehabilitation of the Enugu-Onitsha and Enugu-Port Harcourt dual carriage ways.