As a follow up to its visitation to the National Assembly last week to canvass popular political reform, the Mega Summit Movement (MSM), is set to host a major National Political Reform Summit otherwise known as National Summit on Democracy (NASDEM) on October 1 to harmonize all the proposals and recommendations harvested in the course of its consultations for popular political reform and the establishment of a formidable Peoples’ Mega Party.

Bishop Cletus Bassey of Destiny Tabernacle, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, has endorsed Governor Godswill Akpabio for second term.

Finance Minister, Dr. Mansur Muhtar weekend tasked the Nigerian Army to modernise and align its finance corps as a matter of necessity, to the reform objectives of the Federal Government and international best practices as minimum criteria for appraising the transformation agenda.

Hundreds of Integrated Macro Finance Bank customers in Kano staged a peaceful protest at the premises of the bank weekend over the bank’s failure to meet their withdrawal requests.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has directed traffic management officers and public officials in the state to henceforth desist from arresting motorists without original Ministry of Transportation (MOT) certificates even as he said only motorists that have violated glaring traffic rules, offences and law as specified in the traffic law and Highway Code should be booked.

FORMER commander of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND), “General” Boyloaf, dropped a bombshell yesterday, saying the supposed leader of the group, Henry Okah, is not a freedom fighter but an arms supplier, who is not interested in the peace process in the Niger-Delta because it will close his line of business.

THE Federal Government has been called upon to intervene in the on going effort to sanitise the banking industry by investigating and probing the bank examiners of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and Auditors.

FIRST Bank of Nigeria (FBN) Plc shareholders have commended its board of directors for appointing its staff as the new managing director, just as they pledged to give the new helmsman ,Mr. Steven Onasonya the desired support that would move the bank higher.

TWO-time governor of the defunct Bendel State, Dr. Samuel Ogbemudia, has denied media reports that the state governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, sneaked into his house last month to apologise to him, and was treated to a sumptuous dinner and lavish drinks.

RIGHTS activists, Education Rights Campaign (ERC), has condemned the decision of the Federal Government to call off negotiations with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), saying the Federal Government was never involved in negotiations, but fruitless merry-go-round since the start of the strike seven weeks ago without taking any visibly positive step to resolve the issue.