Though workers resumed duties, yesterday, at the Federal Secretariat and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, after Tuesday’s bomb scare, Abuja residents have become wary of parked vehicles.

AHEAD the 2011 general elections, Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, yesterday, predicted dangers, following what he described as the alleged attempt by the National Assembly to turn the nation into a one party state, by dictating to political parties how they should run their primaries, in addition to usurping the powers of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, by fixing election time table for the nation.

PIQUED by widespread complaints from the public over the shoddy organisation that characterised most events lined up for Nigeria’s golden jubilee celebrations, the Federal Government, yesterday, ordered a full-scale probe into the expenditures of Nigeria @ 50 committee

One month after his reported comments that Nigeria’s first and only Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa died from an asthmatic attack and not gunshots, former High Commissioner to London, Chief Matthew Mbu, yesterday, tendered an unreserved apology to the Balewa family.

AS the National Assembly prepares to further amend the 1999 Constitution to accommodate the time extension sought by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for the review of voters register and conduct of the 2011 general elections, a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, ordered the federal lawmakers to maintain status-quo on their plans.