PRESIDENT Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has been formally invited to attend this year's G-8 Summit of the world's industrial nations holding in Italy.

From Madu Onuorah, Alfa Daniel (Abuja), Ifedayo Sayo (Ado-Ekiti), Tayo Kamal Oropo, and Ajibola Amzat (Lagos)
THE Presidency has put to rest the controversy trailing the calls by some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders for members of the armed forces to be deployed in Ekiti State to monitor Saturday's re-run governorship polls.

The Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona (Ogbagba II), yesterday, waded into the lingering crisis between the Ogun state governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel and 15 members of the state House of Assembly, calling for a ceasefire.

CONVINCED that the e-payment system introduced for federal financial transactions from January 1 this year is capable of institutionalising financial probity in the federal bureaucracy, President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has declared that despite initial hiccups and stiff resistance, the policy is irreversible.

Jankara market is self- effacing and deceptively ordinary. Located close to Idumagbo area of Lagos Island, the market is just a stretch of an old street.