AN Appeal Court sitting in Ibadan, yesterday up-turned the judgment of the Election Petition Tribunal that confirmed the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Hosea Agboola, winner of the election for Oyo North Senatorial District.

A pressure group, South-East Revival Group, SERG, has insisted on an alleged plot to remove the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Chief Anyim Pius Anyim, from office under the guise of zoning within the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

IMMEDIATE past Governor of Oyo State, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala has faulted the efforts of his successor at bringing succour to the victims of the 26 August flood that ravaged Ibadan, the state capital.

Ahead of the October 22 local government election in Lagos State, hundreds of aggrieved members of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, yesterday, stormed the party secretariat in Ogba, Lagos State House of Assembly, Alausa, and took to the major streets in Isolo Local Government Area to protest alleged imposition of candidates.

ACTIVITIES were Monday crippled at the national secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the national leadership of the party literarily relocated to the Court of Appeal, venue of the Presidential Election Tribunal, in solidarity with President Goodluck Jonathan.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, Monday, tasked Nigerians, particularly judges and lawyers to guide jealously the rule of law for the survival of the nation’s democracy.

Imo State Government has extolled the leadership of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, in the state, for suspending the eight-day-old industrial action over the non-implementation of the N18,000 minimum wage.

Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Monday, denied any involvement in setting up Mainstreet Bank Limited as a bridge bank to assume the deposits, liabilities and assets of Afribank Nigeria Plc.

SENATE President, David Mark, vowed, Yesterday that delay in the presentation of the 2012 budget to the National Assembly by the executive arm will not make it a rubber stamp to the budget.

Ebonyi State chapter of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Monday disassociated itself from the activities of those it described as “ghost clergymen”.

SPEAKER of the House of Representatives, Mr Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, yesterday asked the Federal Government to stop arbitrary tax waivers given to certain companies, saying this had further reduced the revenue base of the country.

ALL the 16 commissioner nominees sent to the Ondo State House of Assembly by Governor Olusegun Mimiko for confirmation yesterday scaled through the screening exercise.

Yours sincerely would have been among the first few people to test-drive the all-new Range Rover Evoque in the United Kindgom two months ago but for visa hitches.

Governor Rochas Okorocha is still high on the success of Heartland FC who won the FA Cup on Sunday.

OVERWHELMED General Manager of Heartland FC, Fan Ndubuoke is yet to come to terms with the club’s victory over hotshot Enyimba in the Federation Cup on Sunday at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos.