CRISIS is brewing at the Edo State Pensions Board, following allegations that some top members of the Board were involved in the registeration of fake names as pensioners to defraud the state government.

UNFOLDING intrigues over the 2011 presidential ticket of ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, thickened, yesterday, as Kwara State Governor, Bukola Saraki’s presidential ambition further polarised the ranks of state governors and leadership of the party.

BARELY five months after five operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, were ambushed by unknown persons in Enugu which led to the death of Sergeant Edoga Eze, another top shot of the anti-graft body, Mr. Abdulahi Muazu, was, yesterday, killed by unknown assassins in his Kaduna residence.

ABOUT two years ago, I got a text message from somebody who said he was Soboma George. He wanted to react to a column I had written but could not reach me. I called him. He sounded surprised, spoke about my column and I promised to publish his reaction which he sent in a text message.

ged the Uyo Township Sports Stadium, Akwa Ibom State to declare support for his presidential aspiration, barely few days to his official declaration for the 2011 general elections.

FOR the second day running, the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, failed to reach a compromise on the torny issue of whether the governorship, or the presidential primaries, should hold first.

LAST year, former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Dr. Aliyu Modibbo drew attention to the enormous powers Governors held because State Houses of Assembly were not strong enough to control them. He said governors had become emperors.

THE Warri Women Consultative Assembly, WWCA, has urged all aspiring political office holders in the Itsekiri nation to make themselves available to the electorate for assessment, saying that it would help in eliminating the problem of imposition of candidates.

The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, are set to start a three-day warning strike next week, to protest the new Rivers Social Services Contributory levy law 2010.

THE Police in Benin, Edo State, yesterday said that the recent spate of kidnappings and other violent crimes in the state were as as a result of the delay in reporting criminal cases to the police for prompt action.