TWO children and a middle-aged woman were drowned in a flood after a heavy downpour that lasted several hours in Ibadan on Sunday.

Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimikko yesterday said there was need to review the current revenue formula in the country to enable the states meet the challenges facing them.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that economic growth witnessed in African countries without job creation has led to frustration among the youth.

Speaker of the Lagos House of Assembly, Mr. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, Sunday, met with Governor Babatunde Fashola, apparently to streamline the list of nominees into the state’s cabinet.

THE nomination of Oloye Jumoke Akinjide, daughter of the former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Chief Richard Akinjide, SAN, for ministerial appointment has been generating mixed reactions in Oyo State.

Leader of the progressive group in the recently concluded sixth session of the House of Representatives, Dino Melaye, has raised an alarm over plots targeted at his life, following his role in the exposition of former speaker, Dimeji Bankole’s alleged financial impropiety.

Members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekiti State yesterday stormed the state headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, protesting the alleged involvement of the staff of the commission in the reported manipulation of electoral materials used during the last general elections.

WORK on the reconstruction and modernisation of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway is set to commence, the concessionaire, Bi-Courtney High-way Services Limited, assured, yesterday.

THE nation may be thrown into total darkness today as workers in the power sector hold a one-day warning strike over alleged government insincere approach to problems in power sector and unwillingness to effect the agreed payment of 50% salary increase.

FOR the second time in a week, leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo South senatorial district who are loyal to the former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Party, Chief Tony Anenih, weekend, shunned the meeting called by their political father.

THE House of Representatives yesterday said it would partner with the diplomatic community in Nigeria to further entrench democracy in the country.