ON October 10, 2012, President Goodluck Jonathan presented the 2013 budget proposal to a joint session of the National Assembly. A total sum of N426.53 billion was proposed as allocation to the education sector.

SOMETHING in the report of the Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force, PRSTF, must be galling the Presidency.

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and its candidate in the October 20 governorship election in Ondo State, Chief Olusola Oke has challenged the victory of Governor Olusegun Mimiko as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, at the Election Petition Tribunal.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, yesterday, said the reaction of the Federal Government to the report of the Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force, led by Mallam Nuhu Ribadu was a demonstration that the government was not ready to honour the country’s international anti-corruption obligations.

NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday, threatened to shut down all economic and commercial activities in Sokoto State should Governor Aliyu Wamakko refuse to apologise for allegedly flogging an officer of Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, to a comma in public.

General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, weekend, emphasised the efficacy of prayer of the Saints to resolve every situation, admonishing Nigerians to bring the country and its leadership to God in prayers.

With the euphoria of the election over and ahead of his second inauguration as governor of Edo State, it was tempting to ask Comrade Adams Oshiomhole if he would fall into the trap of second term governors who do nothing in office.

National Leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said it was neither thinking of nor distracted by the politics of 2015.

Gunmen killed a policeman and wounded another in a raid on a police station in Bauchi State, a police officer said, yesterday.

AFTER independence, the aims of political parties were maintaining and protecting the unity and sovereignty of Nigeria as one indivisible and indissoluble nation among others.

As the controversy over the ownership of some wells between Rivers and Bayelsa States, continues unabated, seven states have been ordered by the Federal Government to refund N17.5 billion to Rivers State.

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Mr Lanre Ogunlesi, yesterday, warned against discrimination in the judiciary, noting that it was wrong for the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mariam Aloma Murktar, to decline swearing-in Justice Ifeoma Jombo-Ofo for the reason that she is not from Abia State.

NATIONAL Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has warned that if Nigeria as a country must develop and meet its set targets, governors elected on the platform of the party must exceed their predecessors in their achievements.

Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has approved the sum of N120 million for the state contingent to the 2012 National Sports Festival slated for Lagos.

Mobil Producing Nigeria, MPN, has reported an oil spill from its Qua Iboe oil fields, in Akwa Ibom State.