STRONG indications emerged yesterday of a split in the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP over the recommendation of the National Judicial Council, NJC for the reinstatement of Justice Ayo Salami as the President of the Court of Appeal.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, dismissed the suit by Bank PHB against the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN; Keystone Bank and Federal Government, challenging the revocation of its banking licence, and takeover of its assets by Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC and Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON.

This government is tired of strikes. Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris who confirmed this in an interview with Sola Ogundipe and Chioma Obinna, was only echoing the thoughts of millions of Lagosians and Nigerians as a whole.

The Supreme Court, yesterday, fixed July 30 to deliver judgment on claims by the Cross River State government that 14 oil wells were ceded to it by former President Olusegun Obasanjo before he left office in 2007.

Edo State Police Command is investigating some senior officials of the two new generation banks in Igarra, Akoko Edo Local Government Area of the state, where some dare-devil robbers attempted to rob last Friday.

Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, was, yesterday, thrown into darkness, while passengers and workers were trapped inside lifts for 45 minutes due to power outage.

Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, governorship candidate in Delta State for the April 2011, general elections, Chief Great Ogboru, has asked the Supreme Court, Abuja, to reverse its judgment of March 2, 2012, which he argued, nullified the Court of Appeal judgment in the consolidated appeals, but failed to make consequential orders.

Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, in the 2011 election, General Mohammadu Buhari, rtd,yesterday identified three types of Boko Haram in the country with the Federal Government topping the list, followed by those he described as criminals who steal and kill Nigerians in the name of religion, with the third group as the original one led by late Muhammed Yusufu.

Is the quest by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Edo State to oust Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as governor of Edo State a matter of life and death? No, claims the PDP. But the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN which is the ruling party in the state disagrees as it alleges the complicity of the opposition PDP in the recent spate of death to have befallen associates of Governor Oshiomhole or those travelling with him.

Barely some few hours to the expiration of the 72 hours ultimatum handed down to cultists to turn in their weapons and shun violence, a youth was, Sunday, stabbed to death in the riverine community of Igbomatoru in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State by suspected cultist.