Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has described the late Supreme Court Justice Kayode Eso who died last Friday in a London hospital as a mystery judge even as the family of the deceased will meet in the next two or three days with a view to releasing the burial programmes.

Tragedy struck, yesterday morning, in Bauchi and Maiduguri when unidentified gunmen killed a Police Inspector attached to the Government House in Bauchi as well as a retired Pastor of COCIN Church in Maiduguri, Rev. Ilaisha Kabura.

Lagos State government has said it will scale up electricity generation within the state to at least 3,000 megawatts within the next two years, the Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, Mr.Taofiq Tijani has said.

THE much-sought peace returned to the House last Wednesday with the election of a new Speaker, Emmanuel Teryila Ayua representing Gwer -East state constituency.

LAST week, the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Azubuike Ihejirika, disclosed that the Boko Haram sect has killed 3,000 people in the last few years. That is a high figure by all means and the menace needs a prompt solution.

LAGOS State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, and Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, at the weekend in Enugu stressed the need for high ethical conduct and decency in legal profession as way to protect the judiciary from abuse.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, justified the proposed introduction of Chinese language in public schools, saying one of the advantages is aimed at boosting the state economy.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has voided the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s congresses conducted by a faction loyal to former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Ogun State in July from which an Executive Committee led by one Dipo Odujinrin has emerged.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the South-West has described the arm-twisting tactics employed by the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, to allegedly subvert the course of justice in the ongoing Ikoyi/Obalende Local Council Development Area chairmanship election Appeal case as shameful and a further demonstration of the party’s hatred for democracy and rule of law.

SOME ex-militant leaders from Bayelsa State are on the run, following a manhunt for them by splinter groups of disarmed ex-militants for allegedly siphoning their entitlements.

NIGERIA’s daily crude oil production is expected to rise by another 1.4 million barrels from its current 2.6 million bpd by the year 2020, just as crude oil reserves is also expected to grow to 40 billion barrels from its present 36 billion barrels.

THE Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON, weekend, said its intervention in the banking sector saved 90 per cent of employees that would have lost their jobs in the banking sector.

National Pension Commission,PenCom has indicated intention to come up with proposals to amend the enabling Act of the new Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) in response to growing calls for the investment of some part of the N2.9 trillion pension assets in infrastructure development.

AS the eight year tenure of Governor Peter Obi gradually winds down, political activities are slowly evolving in the flanks. Those itching to take over from him have started inching gingerly towards the political arena.

ALL may truly not be well between former President, Olusegun Obasanjo and the incumbent, Goodluck Jonathan. No one says the things he said about GEJ at a recent public forum in Warri unless there is a war (cold or hot) between them.