Governor of Edo State, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, came out strongly, weekend, to defend his invitation of former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd), to the “One Man One Vote” rally, stressing that it was high time Nigerians did away with politics of exclusion.

The Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Olusegun Oni, has described the demise of Nigeria’s oldest writer, Timothy Mofolorunso Aluko, 92, as the fall of the grand oak in the forest of Nigeria’s literary icons, saying his death was a great loss to the nation.

Chief Smooth through his counsel had in an amended petition for the customary law marriage, claimed for the dissolution of the customary law marriage the petitioner contracted with the respondent sometime in the year 1984 at Okerenkoko in Warri South-West Area of Delta State . A declaration that the petitioner is not the biological father of the twin babies given birth to by the respondent sometime in the month of January, 2010

Even as a young Executive or Management Trainee whose appointment is yet to be confirmed, you are expected to live large and not only scream it but rub it on people’s faces so to speak. And so the rat race continued as young bankers acquired expensive and flashy automobiles, travelled 1st class, RENTED (emphasis mine) exclusive and choice apartments in the upscale sections of town, drank exotic wines , enjoyed outlandish cuisines, courted the most beautiful girls in town for the males and the females amongst them regularly tongue lashed any would be suitor who was not in their class.

IT was a theatre of the absurd, weekend, in Abuja when beggars residing in the nation’s capital city struck, attacked men of the Abuja Social Development Secretariat, Abuja Environmental Protection Board, AEPB, as well as detachment of the Nigeria Police while resisting moves to evacuate them from the streets of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja.

The Inspector-General of Police, Ogbonna Onovo, Weekend ordered serious onslaught against pipeline vandals all over the federation. To this end, no fewer than 300 heavily armed Police officers and men have been deployed immediately to critical active segments in the country.

The Federal Government is to provide technical assistance to Kebbi State in its bid to adopt fiscal responsibility legislation.

Presidential candidate of the Republican Party of Nigeria (RPN) in the 2007 general election, Chief Sunny Okogwu has criticized the removal of the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Maurice Iwu, saying that Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan did not followed due process in the matter.

THE Initiative for Better Power Supply, IBPS, a non-governmental organization, NGO, has threatened to expose and drag major contractors who have abandoned electricity projects awarded to them to court if they refused to return to site.

According to Onyeweife, the protesters were allegedly sponsored by the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, who is from his place and who sees him as an obstacle to his governorship ambition in 2014, dismissing their action as a joke.