THE South-West caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, led by former President Olusegun Obasanjo has endorsed Alhaji Muraina Ajibola as the Speaker-nominee of the House of Representatives.

BARELY 24 hours after he was remanded at the Kuje Maximum Prisons, embattled former Minister of Works, Dr. Hassan Muhammed Lawal, yesterday, instructed his team of lawyers to beg trial Justice Bilkisu Aliyu of a Federal High Court in Abuja, to release him on bail pending the hearing and determination of the substantive criminal charge preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

PRESIDENTIAL Candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Maj. General Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, picked holes in President Goodluck Jonathan’s raising of a 22-man panel to probe the post-presidential polls mayhem that claimed many lives and property in some northern parts of the country.

Last week, I asked readers to react on the cheating in age grade competitions as was highlighted by ex international Adokiye Amiesimaka in his comment in Vanguard two weeks ago.

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, yesterday, described as an insult what it described as a “paltry” sum of N5 million offer by President Goodluck Jonathan for youth corps members who were killed in some northern states of the federation, following the announcement of result of April 16 presidential election