FACTIONAL Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Enugu State, Sir Caesar Okey Ogbonna, has dismissed as false allegation by Enugu State governor, Sullivan Chime, that Justice Gladys K. Olotu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, handling the pre-election matter involving the party’s governorship candidates in the state has a relationship with the family of the former National Chairman of the party, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo.

FOR a country where crookedness and cheating in public life has become a norm, Nigerians are busy passing off Professor Attahiru Jega’s hollow ritual as a great success and a testimonial of credibility and integrity in conducting national and state elections, where virtually all the elements of fraud that have characterised general elections in Nigeria since independence, were present and in no diminishing order.

IN what looked like political vendetta, the out-going Governor of Oyo State, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala Tuesday opened a can of worms within the Council of Obas and Chiefs as he stripped the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi of his permanent chairmanship seat.

The Chairman, Nestle Nigeria Plc Chief Olusegun Osunkeye has called for an increase in government spending, saying it will help buoy economic activity in the country as well as impact positively and ensure sustained growth of the economy.

DELTA State Police Command and the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, in the state are at loggerheads over the rights of citizens to carry out protests on the streets without legal permit.

The Director-General, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Dr Harold Demuren said on Monday that the Billing and Settlement Payment (BSP) system had created more job opportunities in the country’s aviation sector.

Fitch Ratings has assigned a ‘BBB-(nga)’ National Long-term rating and ‘F3 (nga)’ National Short-term rating on Rating Watch Positive (RWP) to Access Bank Plc over its planned acquisition of Intercontinental Bank Plc.

IN order to seek redress from law courts for perceived irregularities that arose from the just-concluded elections, aggrieved politicians across the country have been warned against filing frivolous petitions which are capable of distracting stakeholders in the democratic process.

The Yenagoa branch of the Nigerian Bar Association has called for the institution of a high powered investigative team with the required independence to probe last weekend attack on the registry of state Election Petition Tribunal within the High Court complex by suspected thugs who carted away documentary evidence before it and the sum of N70,000 belonging to the staff.

THE Ogun State Governor-elect, Senator Ibikunle Amosun has raised a 13 member Transition Committee to work towards a smooth transfer of power from Governor Gbenga Daniel’s led People’s Democratic Party(PDP) government to Amosun’s Action Congress of Nigeria(ACN) on Sunday ,May 29.

DIRECTOR of FENOG Nigeria Limited, a major player in the nation’s oil industry, Mr. Matthew Tonlagha said, in Warri, Delta state, that there is a rush by Nigerian entrepreneurs to invest in the oil and gas industry and build up the capacities of their companies to handle major contracts because of their new found hope in the Local Content Bill, put in place by the Federal Government.

Ethiopian Government on Monday commended all parties involved in the operation that led to the killing of Osama Bin Laden, the leader of the Al-qaeda terrorists group.

The Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, NUC, Professor Julius Okojie, yesterday disclosed that the nation’s education sector, especially the tertiary sub-sector, has enjoyed greater funding under this administration in the last three years.

Kwara governor-elect, Abdulfatah Ahmed, says sports and youth development will be given special attention by his administration.

TWO tribunals have been confirmed to sit in Abia State to hear petitions from political parties and their candidates who participated in the just concluded 2011 general elections.