While incarcerated at the Kirikiri Maximum Prisons, Lagos, former chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) bigwig, Chief Bode Ibiyinka George, held sway in the Lagos State chapter of the party.

Kidnapping became bloody in Imo State, at the weekend, following the abduction of a High Court judge, Justice Theophilus Ugwu, and the gruesome murder of his driver and orderly

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Friday, struck out the suit by the Union Bank Plc against NICON Investment Ltd. The court held that the suit was incompetent and constituted an abuse of the judicial process.

The Supreme Court, Friday, struck out an appeal filed by the governorship candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, in the 2007 general elections in Niger state, Mr. David Umaru, in which he asked the court to declare Governor Babangida Aliyu’s tenure illegal.

Umaru had prayed the court to look into the merits of proof of evidence he adduced before

SENATOR Bode Olajumoke weekend kick started his second term campaign with a promise to do more in the delivery of the dividend of democracy to the people of the Ondo North Senatorial district of Ondo State.

A Deltan and human rights activist, Oghenejabor Ikimi, Friday, asked a Federal High Court, Asaba, Delta State, to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from conducting any election for the governorship of Delta State until January 10, 2015, when the tenure of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan would expire.

-The INEC has decided to appeal the judgement of an Abuja Federal High Court that five state governors would run for elections in 2012 instead of April 2011.