Hosts of the on-going 17th National Sports Festival, Rivers yesterday increased its medals haul, ensuring that it is not contesting winning the Games with any other state. They are run-away winners even before end of the Games.

A MAJOR item on the discussion menu in Ilorin last weekend was the political road show which recently landed with so much razzmatazz in Kwara. It had all the contrived elements associated with a burlesque: there was a “special prayer session that featured many Imams”, according to THISDAY newspaper of Monday, June 27, 2011.

Apparently troubled by the persistence of Boko Haram’s attack and the killing of innocent Nigerians, President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, said that Nigeria was at a crossroad regarding the spate of bombings and insecurity witnessed recently. He said it was uncalled for.

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, yesterday, reserved its ruling on preliminary objections that were filed by President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, challenging the propriety of the petition entered against them by the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC.

Following the persistent chaotic traffic situation on Apapa-Oshodi Expressway, the Lagos State Government, yesterday, set up a team of traffic managers to work out modalities on how to address the situation.

BY DANIEL  IDONOR ABUJA – PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday approved the appointment of Chief Mike Oghiadomhe as Chief of Staff, COS, to the President, and Dr Reuben Abati as Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity. Eighteen other aides were also named to advise the president in various areas of Nigeria’s development. A […]

DELTA State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, said, yesterday, while swearing-in 22 Commissioners, that he is focused on fast-tracking the overall development of the state and will not allow himself to be distracted.

The Coalition of Ethnic Nationalities of Nigeria, CENN, comprising 16 ethnic groups from across the federation, rose from a meeting, yesterday, and likened the recent attacks by the Boko Haram group in the North as an act of war or foreign invasion against the country.

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, yesterday, condemned the position of the State Security Service, SSS, on the prosecution of over 100 suspected commanders of the dreaded Boko Haram sect purportedly arrested in six states of the federation, insisting that only the Attorney General of the Federation could determine whether they should be tried or not.

CIVIL Society allies of organised labour, yesterday, advised state governors to immediately commence the implementation of the N18,000 new minimum wage to save the nation from looming anarchy.

Two men in Mobile Police uniform, Tuesday, invaded the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Asaba, Delta State, shot dead a patient on his sick bed, while a nurse was hit by a stray bullet.

Edo State House of Assembly, yesterday, ordered the former Speaker of the House, Mr. Zakawanu Garuba, former Majority Leader, Mr. Frank Okiye, to return official vehicles still in their possession within 24 hours or risk arrest.

EKITI—Four staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, were yesterday in Ekiti State, arraigned in an Ado Ekiti Magistrate Court on eight count charge of alleged tampering with electoral materials used for the House of Assembly election in April.

IN the early 1970s a movie by our chosen title of today “Leben und sterben lassen” ran on German cinemas for a very long time. Apparently, our governors have a big problem in their hands and they think that the only solution to the problem is to create bigger problems; problems that would consume not only themselves, but also the entire nation.

ANGRY civil servants in Oyo State yesterday hurled stones and other objects at their leaders for agreeing with the state government’s decision to pay N9, 400 instead of the N18, 000 new minimum wage.