FOLLOWING the renewed cult war between the suspected Eiye confraternity and the Black Axe members, which had led to the death of no fewer than 18 persons in the last one week in Edo State, the state police command, yesterday, paraded 31 suspects alleged to be involved in the killings in different parts of the state.

Nigerian Physician, Afoke Isiavwe, has been inducted as a fellow of the American College of Endocrinology, ACE, the educational and scientific arm of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, AACE.

THE Northern Senators Forum, NSF, yesterday, endorsed Senator David Mark, for the Senate Presidency with a warning to Governor Danjuma Goje that he would be humilated if he dared to contest against Mark.

TWELVE years into civil rule and 17 years after the formation of the National Democratic Coalition, NADECO, leaders of the group yesterday took a critical look at the state of affairs in the country and returned a grim verdict: Nigeria is headed for revolution if a Sovereign National Conference, SNC, was not convened, to address rising waves of discontent in the polity.

CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday, raised concerns over low oil revenue inflow even in the face of soaring oil prices at the international oil market.

NEWLY elected members of the House of Representatives vowed yesterday that they would use their numerical strength to upturn the present zoning arrangement of the emergence of principal officers for the House.

DESPITE the suit instituted against the joint ownership of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, by the Osun State Government, outgoing Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala, in less than four days to the expiration of his tenure, has revoked the law that recognises the joint ownership of the institution.

DAYS to his being sworn in we think President Goodluck Jonathan should remember the stirring speech he made last September while declaring his intention to run for office. In his speech, he cut the image of the President for the poor, or what others may call the peoples’ President.

The Federal Government, will today, publicly destroy the arms and ammunition submitted to it by Niger Delta former agitators, who accepted the amnesty programme in 2009.

A Police officer in Ekiti State Police Command, has been arrested by the command for allegedly raping and impregnating a 12-year old girl.

The Nigeria Football Federation yesterday in Abuja placed a life ban on the prime movers of the parallel body which goes by the name Nigeria Football Association.

A Lagos lawyer, Mr. Malachy Ugwummadu, has challenged the propriety of the directive by the Ministry of Police Affairs and the Inspector-General of Police, Hafiz Ringim, restraining Nigerians from using tinted glasses on their vehicles.

FORMER Presidents of the Senate, Senators Anyim Pius Anyim and Adolphus Wabara, yesterday, described the legislature as a war-front where ideas, thoughts and views about the sustenance of democracy is canvassed, saying that lawmakers must emphasize the making of laws that have direct impact on the welfare of their constituents.

THE two events were unrelated but had a critical linkage. The first in the afternoon was a pre-annual general meeting media briefing by one of the nation’s 24 banks.

BUT for the timely intervention of his colleagues, a journalist with the Dague Broadcasting Corporation, DBN, would have been killed by a Police Corporal, identified as Sumbo Oruns, who threatened to shoot him in Benin, yesterday.