THE Benin monarch, Oba Erediauwa, has faulted the setting up of a fresh Visitation Panel to the University of Benin, UNIBEN, just as he urged the Federal Government to release the White Paper on the previous exercise for the period of 2004-2009, when Prof. Emmanuel Nwanze was Vice-Chancellor of the institution.

Immediate past Governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, opened up on those behind the failure of the proposed alliance between the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, saying the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, frustrated the move through some of its agents, who clandestinely crept into the process.

Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, yesterday berated the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for mismanaging the fortunes of the state during its almost eight years in power.

A 39 years old driver with SCC Construction Company, Jabi Quarter Abuja, Dele Ali, has been docked before an Abuja Magistrate court for sexually harassing his female colleague, one Mrs. Martin Kure.

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday declared that nobody, particularly the people of the South-East geo-political zone, owed him favour or gratitude for appointing one of their own, Lieutenant General Azubuike Ihejirika, as the Chief of Army Staff.

IT was another bloody day in Ibadan yesterday as members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, in Oyo State and the state police command clashed when the latter led a demolition team to the secretariat of the union at Olomi.

FOUR years after he left office, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, admitted that the people in the South West did not vote for him in 1999 and 2003, saying they did so for reasons best known to them and commended the people of Northern Nigerian for voting for him during the 1999 and 2003 presidential elections

Founder of the defunct Nigeria Advanced Party, NAP, Dr. Tunji Braithwaite, has called for a revolution in the country, saying the April elections will be the spark needed for the revolution.

SEVENTEEN people died and 66 others seriously injured in an accident that occurred along the Suleja-Minna road on Wednesday.