THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has summoned the Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Mr. Tunji Egbetokun to appear before it Friday over allegations of illegal deductions from Local Government funds in the state by the Governor Olugbenga Daniel-led administration.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the South West has thrown its weight behind the dissolution of the Federal Executive Council by the Acting President, Goodluck Jonathan, promising to give him support as he steers the ship of the nation

Mrs. Stella Odimegwu, the wife of former Managing Director of Nigerian Breweries Plc, Dr. Festus Odimegwu, was late afternoon Thursday, released by her abductors.

President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, Thursday, accused the erstwhile Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, of deceiving the Senate on the fragile state of Nigerian banks.

A CHANCE meeting with Coach Shuaibu Amodu last Friday was a good opportunity to know his inner thoughts as he is again denied a place in the country’s World Cup party. He suffered the same fate in 2002.

THE current toast of the ‘democratic’ world is Faure Gnassingbe of Togo who has just secured an expected electoral victory. Various countries, including Nigeria, are sending congratulatory messages even before opposition claims of fraud in the elections are addressed.

Against the backdrop of renewed killings in the Riyom area of Jos and attacks on Dogon Na Hauwa in which 215 persons mostly women and children lost their lives to attacks from Fulani herdsmen, General Officer Commanding, 3 Armoured Division of the Nigerian Army, Major-General Saleh Maina, has said Nigerians criticising him for the mayhem have been unfair to him.

DESPITE the resolution by the House of Representatives for the redeployment of Batch ‘A’ 2010 NYSC members from Plateau, some of the corps members have rejected the redeployment.

GRADUALLY coming to terms with the reality that the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, is undoubtedly losing out in ongoing power play in Aso Rock, Chairman of the ruling party, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor, yesterday could not but accept his fate when he declared that he was satisfied by the dissolution of the Executive Council of the Federation, EXCOF, by Acting President Goodluck Jonathan.

OIL prices rose 2.4 percent, Tuesday, moving April delivery to about $82 per barrel. This came on the heels of OPEC ministers’ decision, Wednesday, to leave output unchanged.

WHAT happened in Warri on Monday is condemnable. That it could happen is despicable. Its implications are by far more reproachable.

SOME of the 42 ministers sacked, Wednesday, are intensifying lobby to return to the cabinet, according to reliable Presidency sources.

Following the sudden dissolution of the Federal Executive Council by the Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, Wednesday, a major stakeholder in Nigerian sports, Seigha Porbeni, has advised against the appointment of a politician to succeed Engineer Sani Ndanusa as the next minister of sports.

Against the backdrop of a possible extension of his contract beyond the 2010 World Cup, national team manager, Lars Lagerback is being touted as one who would take football in Nigeria to new heights.

Former Deputy National Chairman, South, of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olabode George, convicted by a Lagos High Court, was Thursday granted leave by the Court of Appeal, Lagos, to amend his notice of appeal.