THE crisis rocking the ruling Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, and soured relationship between Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, and his political godfather, Chief Orji Kalu, has clearly manifested with the governor’s plans to dump the PPA and join another party this week.

England bowed out of the World Cup in the second round in humiliating fashion as they were comfortably beaten 4-1 by Germany in Bloemfontein.

A thirty-nine- year-old man, Mr. Victor Edon, of Ifiekporo community, Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, who was abducted, tortured and dumped at the Okoloba forest in Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area, by suspected hired hoodlums, has been rescued by soldiers.

KIDNAPPERS dared the curse laid by the Benin Monarch, Oba Erediauwa, when last Thursday, they abducted the sister-in-law to the former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Planning and Budgetary in Edo State, Mrs Lilian Iwu.

THE ancient town of Ijebu-Ode in Ogun State virtually stood still on Saturday as prominent Nigerians including, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Speaker Dimeji Bankole and the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Said Abubakar; stormed the town to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the installation of the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona.

THE Action Congress, AC, has said that the show of shame exhibited at the House of Representatives should not prevent anti-graft agencies from getting to the root of the crisis in the House and unravelling what happened to the N9 billion Capital vote.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State at the weekend handed over an ultra modern crèche to the Catholic Women Organization, CWO, of the Church of Annunciation in the Abraham Adesanya Estate, Ajah as part of events to mark his 47th birthday.

As part of measures to reduce flooding, the Apapa Local Government Area is set to commission some drainage projects and some newly rehabilitated roads in the council area.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, weekend, restrained the Implementation Committee of the White Paper on the Commission of Inquiry on Federal Government Landed Property and its agents from evicting the occupants of 1, Rumens Roads, Ikoyi, Lagos.