Governor Chibuike Amaechi, who ordered the query, said he did it as a corrective measure. He said he was shocked to find that minutes after a scheduled monthly inter-ministerial meeting had commenced at Government House, Port Harcourt, was when some of them were sauntering into the venue, an action he said was very un-exemplary.

DEAN, Faculty of Management Sciences of the University of Benin, Professor Esosa Bob Osaze, has said that beyond the palliative measures provided by the Federal Government to cushion the Nigerian economy against the global economic meltdown, there was need by the government to provide long-term economic packages against another economic meltdown.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Chairman, Professor Maurice Iwu, has described the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP’s imposition of Professor Chukwuma Soludo for the February 6, 2010, Anambra State gubernatorial election as anti-democratic just as he stressed that serial number on ballot papers will henceforth be shown to political parties 24 hours to election to prevent rigging.

LAGOS—The Management of the Intercontinental Bank Monday served sack letters to no fewer than 1,500 of its workers. However, the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, protested the retrenchment, but did not disclose what its next line of action would be.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, launched two Bell 412 EP Helicopters with a promise to commit the state’s resources to securing the lives and property of residents.