Full text of the memo on Yar’Adua which Dora Akunyili, minister of information and communications, was prevented from presenting at last week’s Federal Executive Council meeting

Michael Kaase Aondoakaa, attorney- general of the federation and minister of justice, has been in the vanguard of defending the position of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, that President Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua is not incapable of discharging his functions. He spoke to Tobs Agbaegbu, senior associate editor, and Anza Phillips, assistant editor, on the legality of the FEC’s position on the issue and the controversial memo by Dora Akunyili, minister of information and communications, whom he also advised to resign if she disagrees with the council’s position on Yar’Adua. Excerpts:

There is no contract for the construction of a second Niger Bridge which former President Olusegun Obasanjo flagged off five days before he left office in May 2007

Boniface Egboka, professor of environmental hydro-geology and vice chancellor, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, recently spoke with Anthony Akaeze, principal staff writer, on the state of the Niger Bridge and other matters. Excerpts:

A Federal High Court in Lagos strips Folio Communications Limited of its majority shareholding in the Daily Times of Nigeria

After more than two years’ suspension, the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s  federal government is to resume the sale of Nigeria’s oil blocks to indigenous and foreign oil firms