Former governor of Ogun State, Aremo Segun Osoba yesterday accused an un-named past government in the state of preventing chieftaincy titles to be conferred on former Governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has called for the immediate re-deployment of the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Sontoye Leroy Wakama for alleged partisanship and unholy romance with the ruling Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the state

Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, has said his administration would not only embark on delimitation of constituencies but establishment of more polling units across the country before the 2015 general elections.

Anambra State police command declared, yesterday, one Mr. Okey Nwaforagu (alias Ochiagha Nkpor) wanted for armed robbery and kidnapping that took place in many parts of the state in recent time.

THE Ndudi Elumelu-led House of Representatives Committee on Power and Steel set up to investigate the alleged $16bn expenditure in the power sector, the Farouk Lawan-led House Ad-hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy Management and the Nigeria Stock Exchange probe headed by Ibrahim El-Sudi and the N6.2bn SIM cards registration probe had some reports that generated serious debates but are idling away.

CHAIRMAN of the Presidential Committee on Flood Relief and Rehabilitation, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, yesterday, paid a visit to the displaced persons camp in Edo State and disclosed that over N12 billion had so far been realised by the committee.

CONTROVERSY now surrounds the death of one Wisdom Edu who, until his death, was a staff of Treasureland Hotels in Calabar Municipal Council of Cross River State, just as the tree beside the swimming pool where his body was discovered was said to have ‘mysteriously’ withered within 24 hours after his death.

IS it possible to speak of national insecurity in view of such regionalist dichotomy in the assessment of the present security challenges?

Three former Heads of State, Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalam Abubakar, were among several other prominent Nigerians that paid glowing tributes to the late political icon and Waziri of Ilorin, Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki, yesterday, describing him as a man of honour and dignity, who dilligently served his people and country.

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, accused Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN and Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, of budgeting huge sums of money to destabilise President Goodluck Jonathan and his government.

The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has denied allegation by South West Peoles Democratic Party, PDP, that Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State and ACN are manipulating the appeal case on the Ikoyi/Obalende LCDA.

Kogi State House of Assembly is to resume sitting after five weeks of tension and crisis generated over the impeachment of the Speaker of the House, Hon Abdullahi Bello, alongside other principal officers.

As Nigeria joined the rest of the world to mark this year’s World Toilet Day, a joint UNICEF and World Health Organisation 2012 report has revealed that estimated 34 million Nigerians practice open defecation.

The Appeal Court, Lagos, yesterday ordered the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA to pay into the account of the court a sum of N6.8 billion being a judgment debt over alleged unlawful detention of a commercial vessel, belonging to Hensmor Nigeria Limited on March 14, 2006.

If he had exercised restraint instead of complaining about the smoking of Indian hemp by his landlord’s son and his friends in his rented apartment, perhaps Akinyemi Oguntula’s life would not have ended so tragically. If only he had ignored and endured the inconvenience caused by the smoking of the noxious Indian hemp, he would have been alive today.