STRONG indications emerged yesterday that the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, may have tactfully shunned attempts to influence the election of other House principal officers.

Former Minister of Finance who has been reappointed minister, Dr Olusegun Aganga, weekend, disclosed that about 43,000 ghost workers were on the payroll of Ministries, Department and Agencies, MDAs, of the Federal Government before the last cabinet was dissolved.

Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi has been accused of being economic with the truth. Former Governor Akala in a statement by his spokesman, Prince Dotun Oyelade, weekend insisted that the State is capable of paying N18,000 minimum wage without breaking the bank.

THE immediate past Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Rev. Peter Akinola has described the proposed Islamic banking in Nigeria as a time bomb, saying “it can lead to the disintegration of the country.”

Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, has pledged to fast-track the process that would lead to the passage of the pending reform bills.

REVELATIONS emerged, weekend, that the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram, has undergraduates, retired and dismissed service men as members of its strike force.

IN what appears to further fuel the vicious cycle of kerosine scarcity and allegations of subversion, a major marketer of petroleum products has taken delivery of 16,500 metric tons of aviation fuel under inexplicable circumstances from a foreign vessel.

Former Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Board of Trustee, Chief Tony Anenih, has said that some governors and people of authority were not trust- worthy, hence he cannot attend functions organised by them.

For his bravery, ability to lead officers and soldiers through risky landscape of aggression against the nation and come out victorious, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Oyeabor Azubuike Ihejirika, has conferred the highest military award in the Nigerian Army on Major General, Sarki Yakin Bello, the General Officer Commanding 81 Division of the Nigerian Army, Enugu.

Former Super Eagles Captain , Sunday Oliseh believes Nigeria could have gotten better results from Rashidi Yekini at USA 94 and the team could have done better but for the deep rooted division in the team.

Abia State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Umuahia has fixed Thursday, July 14, 2011, for pre-trial of the petition brought by the Labour Party governorship candidate, Chief Stanley Ohajuruka against Governor Theodore Orji.

I remember that immediately after the Kaduna festival, I wrote on the madness that trails the publication of medals tables.

MAY 28, 2005 – A bomb blast occurs at the residence of the Ikono Head of Council of the area, in Ikono Akwa Ibom State.

NATIONAL Judicial Council, NJC,is a legal institution saddled with great constitutional responsibilities in the country’s democratic setting for the preservation and dispensation of justice. It has discharged its responsibilities with great caution and impartiality since the return of democracy in 1999 and been commended greatly for doing so.

LAST weekend saw a harvest of deaths in different parts of the country with the highest toll coming from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital where the deadly Boko Haram sect continued its reign of terror. This time a gun fight between members of the sect and Joint Task Force, JTF, left at least 41 people dead.