MEMBERS of the Oyo State Executive Council as a matter of compulsion must now undergo training in French language.

BUT for the Non-violence training he got from Amnesty Facilitator, Mr. Allen Onyema, former Chairman of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, and Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Timi Alaibe, said, weekend, that he would have been charged for coup plotting against the Federal Government when the amnesty programme started.

A middle-aged man David Suleiman has been arrested by the police in Lagos State for allegedly pouring acid on his fiancée, Chika Egbo and a yet to be identified Okada rider at Ikotun area of Lagos State.

THERE are indications that the Presidency may have decided to wade into the controversy surrounding the Petroleum Subsidy Fund, PSF, overseen by the Ministry of Finance in the wake of allegations of massive fraud which bedeviled the scheme.

Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has commenced the automation of foreign exchange documentation, with a three weeks pilot run.

IT is widely acknowledged that education remains the bedrock for the development of any nation. Simply put, education is the driving force behind the socio-economic advancement of any serious nation.

THE information management system of the President Goodluck Jonathan administration is inchoate, inadequate and downright confusing.

Negotiation between the Asset Management Company ofNigeria, AMCON, and the Capital Oil and Gas Industries Ltd, over the latter’s indebtedness to banks is being frustrated by some powerful interests, who want to use the opportunity to get at the managing director of the oil marketing company, Ifeanyi Ubah.

The South-West Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused the Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi of spending over N250 million belonging to the state on legal fees, protests and media campaign on the pending Supreme Court case challenging the Appeal Court judgment that made him governor.

THREE days after he was reported dead, Edo State Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, member, Minister Idaro, weekend, debunked the rumours, accusing those behind his alleged death as mischief makers.

In the second half of his stewardship, Orji has generally been acclaimed to be working hard to cover up for the lethargy and crises that characterised the governance of the state in the first term before he championed the liberation struggle that disentangled the governance of the state from the hands of the hitherto prevailing political cabal.

Reasons emerged, weekend, why the Federal Government cancelled its agreement with the German airline, Lufthansa, under which the airline enjoyed free royalty payments for flights into the country.

The Local Organising Committee (LOC) of the 18th National Sports Festival tagged Eko 2012 is planning a colourful and memorable opening ceremony tomorrow at the Teslim Balogun Stadium.

THE silent war between Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu, widow of the late Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, and Directors of Ojukwu Transport Limited, OTL, who are brothers of her late spouse, has blown open as both parties have dragged themselves before High Courts of Lagos state to determine who controls the landed property belonging to the company.

Scandal is trailing alleged embezzlement and sharing of foodstuff belonging to flood victims in Warri by some unscrupulous government officials and leaders of Ayakoromo community in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State.