The Nigeria Olympic Committee will this week concretise its ties with partners in the London 2012 Olympic project.

WITH weeks to the end of the life of this National Assembly, there are no apologies to Nigerians about how men and women elected to make laws for the good of the people dedicated themselves to self-serving causes.

THE Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Caucus in the House of Representatives may have thrown its weight behind the Deputy Whip of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, as the next Speaker of the House of Representatives.

AN Oyo State High Court, yesterday ordered immediate stoppage of the payment of severance benefits to the out-going Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala and other political appointees in Oyo State, even as the Code of Conduct Bureau stormed the state for verification of the governor’s assets and that of principal officials who served in his administration.

THE Chairman of Oshimili North Local Government Area in Delta State, Mr. Christopher Okafor, has appealed the judgment of the state high court, which ordered him to vacate office, urging the Court of Appeal sitting in Benin City to set aside the judgment.

THE Police in Lagos, weekend, engaged a notorious gang of armed robbers in a fierce shootout and shot dead a member of the gang.

COMING into office on the crest of populist clamour it was natural for Rauf Aregbesola, Governor of Osun State, to respond to public adulation via a populist gesture.

Failure to make Samson Siasia’s squad against Argentina will bring out the best in out-of-favour Osaze Odemwingie. That is the position of former Abia state governor Orji Uzor Kalu.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, warned members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to abide by decisions of the party in the zoning arrangement approved and rolled out last week.

FACTIONS in the Ondo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have forwarded three separate lists of nominees political appointment to the National Secretariat of the party.