ADO-EKITI-The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekiti State has kicked against the appointment of a Lagos-based lawyer and human rights activist, Mr Femi Falana, as a legal adviser to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, saying Falana was a partisan politician.

AS the crisis between rival groups of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, in Oyo State remains unabated, another member of the union has lost his life while others were injured in a fresh attack. The latest death brings the casualty figure in the lawless union to about 30.

Anambra State government has suspended the traditional ruler of Obosi, Igwe Josiah Nwakobi, in Idemili-North Local Government Area over the crisis that engulfed the community at the weekend.

A breakfast of yam flour known as amala which is suspected to contain poisonous substance has resulted in hospitalization of 17 people in different parts of Ibadan.

THE Esogban of Benin Kingdom and Chairman of the Benin Forum, an umbrella body of all Binis in Nigeria and diaspora, Chief David Edebiri, yesterday, told those involved in kidnapping in the state that the curse laid on them by the Oba of Benin was capable of killing any evil doer, whether an indigene or not.

Minister of Information and Communications, Prof. Dora Akunyili, will be Special Guest of Honour at the One Nite Stand concert celebrating two music legends, King Sunny Ade and Evang. (Dr.) Ebenezer Obey, October 22, at the New Expo Hall, Eko Hotels and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.

As rescue mission continued at the site of the rubbles of the four-storey building that collapsed in Lagos on Monday, another building said to belong to the Baale of Maidan near Mile 12 area in Kosofe Local Government has collapsed killing two occupants.