South-West Governors, yesterday, were absent at the Ikenne meeting of the Yoruba Unity Forum, just as the forum called on President Goodluck Jonathan to ensure that the Yoruba nation occupy its rightful position in the political hierarchy of the country.

THE Initiative for Better Power Supply, IBPS, a non- governmental organisation, NGO, yesterday, called on the National Assembly to revisit the Ndidi Elumelu Power Panel Report and secret accounts, allegedly illegally operated by some zonal offices of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN.

IN what appears to be subtle moves to appease the Boko Haram sect members who claimed responsibility for last Thursday’s bomb attack on police headquarters Abuja, the Nigeria police said, yesterday, that it will arraign the officers accused of killing the sect leader in court next month.

IT is fairly easy to guess why everyone wants to be a Minister in the cabinet that is in the works. The focus may be the resources Ministers control and the powers that flow from allocating the resources.

An acrimonious war has broken out in the top hierarchy of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Lagos State. At the centre of the brewing conflict is the national leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who is torn between the alleged political interests of two of his loyal subordinates, Hon. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly and Dr. Muiz Banire, the ACN national legal adviser.