Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola of Lagos State is expected to host about 3,000 delegates from 25 countries across the continents at the Kuramo Conference 2010 scheduled to hold between November 2 and 4.

THE Senate has approved the scrapping of the Presidential Implementation Committee, PIC, over alleged non-remittance N1.2 billion made from sales of Federal Government properties in Lagos and Abuja.

Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has announced that the nation’s external reserve has fallen by 4.82 per cent to $33.907 billion within the first 21 days of October.

The House of Representatives Committee on Defence has summoned the Minister of Defence, Chief Adetokunbo Kayode, SAN, and Finance Minister, Olusegun Aganga, to appear before it tomorrow to explain what they knew about several billions of naira meant for United Nations Peace Keeping operations in Liberia and Dafur, among others.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, stepped into the crisis engulfing the National Chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo with a plea to rebel members of the National Working Committee, NWC, to sheath their swords pending the return from medical vacation of the embattled chairman.

THE Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, yesterday attributed Nigeria’s current socio-economic woes to bad leadership perpetrated by the country’s past leaders, which gave rise to epileptic power supply to Kano State and other parts of Nigeria.

AMID declining socio-economic indices, Nigeria is recording a mileage in unexpected quarters. It is the 44th most corrupt country in the globe, according to the 2010 Corruption Perception Index, CPI mid-wived by the Transparency International, TI.

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, yesterday, described the dissolution of the leadership of the 18 Local Government Councils in the state by Governor Adams Oshiomhole as unconstitutional and urged the people of the state to resist it.

SOUTH South leader and second republic senator, Senator Francis Okpozo, yesterday, raised an alarm that the recent comments from some Northern leaders who are opposed to the 2011 Presidential aspiration of President Goodluck Jonathan are capable of disintegrating the country and called on the Federal Government to charge these northern leaders for treason.

CHAIRMAN, Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission, ICPC, Justice Emmanuel Ayoola (rtd) has said the clamour for upward review of the allowances of National Assembly members is perceived as utmost insensitivity to the poor conditions of service of employees in the country.