Emotions ran high few days ago in Makurdi the Benue State capital when the state government rolled out its bulldozers against traders at the multi-million Naira, Makurdi Modern Market.

Commercial and government activities were paralysed in Enugu, yesterday, as thousands of workers in the state civil service and their counterparts from Ebonyi, Anambra, Imo and other states in the South-South zone, led by the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Mr Abdulwaheed Omar, staged a protest march through some major roads in Enugu to register their anger over the government’s failure to implement the new minimum wage for workers in the state.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has denied Wikileaks reports that it investigated President Goodluck Jonathan for alleged corruption during his tenure as Governor of Bayelsa State.

Nobody doubts the loyalty of Speaker Adeyemi Ikuforiji to the political empire of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, himself unarguably the Southwest’s most powerful political figure today. But then no one also doubts the loyalty of Dr. Muniz Banire, the erstwhile Commissioner of Environment in the State and currently the National Legal Adviser of Tinubu’s political platform, the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN.

NO fewer than 15 persons have been killed in the last six weeks in Bayelsa State in the wake of renewed clashes between rival cult groups.