A new Speaker has finally emerged in Akwa Ibom State, after the business of lawmaking in the state ground to a halt, following a political impasse that eventually consumed the former Speaker, Mr Ignatius Edet.

TO give effect to the amnesty granted kidnappers last week, Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State has inaugurated the state Amnesty Central Working Committee, ACWC, and Disarmament and Camp Management Committees, DCMC.

Vice-Chairman, Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Senator Anthony Agbo, has raised alarm that President Goodluck Jonathan was being distracted by what he described as “senseless and useless political debates” over 2011 presidential election.

THE West African Examinations Council, WAEC, has refuted claims that the accounts of its Nigerian office have not been audited since 1983.

Efforts by the Lagos State Chief Judge, Justice Inumidun Akande to lure striking Magistrates back to work, this week is yet to yield result as the Magistrates have insisted on continuing the strike until their demands are met.