Former Governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, weekend, disclosed reasons why he dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and opted for Accord Party.

FOUR supporters of the governorship candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, Mr. Adebayo Shittu were, weekend, killed in a fatal auto crash on Ife-Abuja road.

A teenage hawker around Maza-Maza area of Lagos was, weekend, rescued from a suspected kidnapper who posed as a customer. An angry mob, which rescued the 13-year-old girl from the suspected kidnapper’s car, was at the verge of setting him on fire when policemen from the Satellite Town Division arrived the scene.

Inspite of the suspension of toll collection at Lekki toll plazas by Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, a group known as Lekki-Etiosa-Epe Estates, Indigenes and Stakeholders’ Association, LEEEISA, has called on all residents, business owners and indigenes of Lekki, Eti-Osa and Epe axis to come out en masse today at 7a.m. for “a very peaceful but resolute warning march at Lekki Phase 1 Roundabout.”

Leadership of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekiti State has vowed not to lift the suspension order placed on the chairman of the party in the state, Chief Bola Olu-Ojo, saying the embattled chairman must fully account for all the financial transactions while in office.

THE Edo State Government has reacted to comments credited to the campaign organisation of a governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state, Mr Kenneth Imasuagbon, that all the people of the state needed was food and not road projects as embarked upon by Governor Adams Oshiomhole.

Commander of the Special Task Force in Jos, Brig-Gen Hassan Umaru, has urged the city’s residents to avoid living in separate settlements as peace gradually returns to their community.

The most onerous economic challenge facing Nigeria at the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century is how to fund the massive infrastructure needs of the nation.

Foreign exchange end-users may pay more naira per dollar in 2011. It all depends mostly on two factors namely the stock of foreign exchange available to the country i.e the level of foreign reserves and how much the three tiers of government spends or decides to spend this year.

SECURITY in and around military barracks in Lagos has been heightened following the New Year eve bomb blast at the Mogadishu Barracks Abuja that claimed several lives and injured many.