The three tiers of government, yesterday, shared a total of N603.444 billion from federally collected revenue for the month of October, which would be used for November expenditure.

THERE is more to Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu than the civil war and his leadership of Biafra. In the consistent prosecution of the war by other means, 41 years after it ended, pillorying Ojukwu has become a passion, almost a profession for some, who use it in the larger fight for group relevance in Nigeria.

STATESMEN are usually given state burial but former Biafran Leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, will get more than that. His body will be flown to three African countries and one American country before the final burial in his Nnewi country home, according to his will.

The Coordinating Minister for the economy and Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday, disclosed that the Federal Government was set to diversify the economic base of the country in order to achieve its Vision 2020 vision even as she tasked the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to ensure that interest rate was reduced to enable the real sector borrow from banks at reduced cost.

Onokpite and Ighomrore families of Okpe and Uvwie local government areas in Delta State have given their own account of how their son, gubernatorial candidate of Citizens Popular Party, CPP, in the last gubernatorial elections in the state, Chief Ogbe Onokpite was killed by the police in Warri, weekend.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has set a four-point agenda for chairmen of 20 local government areas and 37 local council development areas, LCDAs, saying primary healthcare, primary education, sanitation and law enforcement will be given priority attention at the grassroots level in the state for the next three years.

ABUJA-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Monday, arraigned David Lohbut, a Police Sergeant seconded to the EFCC, before Justice Mohammed Talba of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, on a three count charge bordering on dishonestly obtaining money and misappropriating funds.

LOKOJA- PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday in Lokoja advised the opposition political parties that contested the last presidential elections with him to bury the hatchet as according to him God has made him the President of the country by the mandate given to him by Nigerians.

OFFICIALS of the Nigeria Export Processing Zone Authority, NEPZA, visited Warri at the weekend to inspect site and facility on ground for the multi-billion dollars Warri Industrial Business Park, WIBP, designed to turn around the economy of Delta State and Niger-Delta region.

What would you do, if you retured to your home, after the day’s toiling and fund your husband’s lifeless body hanging on the hook of a ceiling fan with an electric wire tied around his neck? Scream! Dumfounded, or run out of the house in disbelief!