The Senate has reached a deal with the leadership of the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP over the controversial bid by federal lawmakers to insert themselves in the National Executive Committees of registered political parties.

Indication emerged Thursday that allegation of contracting splitting, over invoicing, non compliance with extant financial rules of Public Procurement and exceeding approval limits levelled at the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, management are mere speculations and unfounded aimed at causing confusion and disenchantment, a top official of Ministry of Transport has revealed.

Okah, who is standing trial in South Africa for alleged terrorism spoke to The Associated Press by phone, Thursday from jail, where he is awaiting trial on charges he was behind October 1 bombings in Abuja.

The Ibrahim Babangida Campaign Organisation has expressed concern that the country is plunging more into darkness in the hands of a leader without capacity. The Babangida Presidential Campaign Organisation equally rebuffed claims of economic growth as it accused the government of refurbishing statistics for its own benefit.

Former Minister of Culture and Tourism, Ambassador Frank Ogbuewu, Thursday, picked the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, nomination and expression of interest forms at N5.5 million to run for the governorship election in Ebonyi State in 2011.

AHEAD of 2011 elections, Abia State chapter of the Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, has said it would set up what it referred to as Committee of Eminent Personalities, CEP, to screen aspirants for the various elective positions, with a view to presenting the party’s best candidates.

DR. Adebayo Adewusi, a governorship aspirant of the Action Congress of Nigeria has condemned and asked the security agencies to fish out those behind the stealing of election materials recently imported into the country.

THE growing bilateral economic relationship between Ogun State and the Shandong Province of China has further been consummated with the visit of Chinese leading businessmen and economic leaders from the region and the commencement of the development of an industrial garden.

THE Senate yesterday confirmed Dr. Sam Amadi as Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, and six new commissioners.

NATIONAL Vice President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, in charge of South- West and General Overseer of Christ Life Church, Bishop Francis Wale Oke, has sounded an alarm of an imminent disintegration of the nation, if care is not taken, ahead of next year’s elections.