PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday in Lagos challenged Nigerian preachers to live pious lives, stating that church pulpits should be places where the values of integrity, honesty, moderation in all things, humility and genuine selfless services to God and man are promoted.

A group, the Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) has commended the proposed plan by the Speaker of the House of Representatives to reduce the jumbo pay of members as a good step with utmost interest of Nigerians.

THE palace of the Oba of Benin has given a seven-day ultimatum to a leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, Owere Dickson Imasogie, to tender unreserved apology to the Benin monarch over the comments credited to him, that the Oba of Benin played a role in the success of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the just concluded general elections.

To a keen observer of Nigeria’s haphazard evolution as a nation-state, the country is currently facing serious crisis of values. Specifically, since the civil war ended in 1970, there has been a paradigm-shift in the value orientation of Nigerians.

Delta State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, yesterday, failed to stop the hearing of the election petition filed by the governorship candidate of Democratic Peoples Party (DPP), Chief Great Ogboru, over the re-run governorship election held on January, 6, this year on the grounds that it was incompetent and had since been abandoned.