THE stand-off between the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, and Governor Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State, has degenerated with the governor describing NLC’s President Omar’s call for apology as not only mis-guided but “absolutely disgusting”

National Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Victor Umeh, yesterday, dismissed media reports insinuating that he shunned the peace meeting purportedly summoned by Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State on November 6 to seek ways of restoring peace to the party, saying he was never invited to such a meeting.

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.

Adamawa State Independent Electoral Commission, ADSIEC, is set to conduct local government election in the state on November 24.

Several warnings from KAI Marshal,Rtd. General Danjuma Meigeri, not withstanding, some notorious KAI Brigade officials, have shifted their extortion of erring pedestrians who prefer to dash cross the expressway rather than using overhead bridges from the Ketu-Ojota area to Onipanu in Ikorodu road.

National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, yesterday, dashed the hopes of about 85 contractors, who bidded for the production and supply of kit items for 2013 Batch ‘A’ Corps members, insisting that only those who quoted about five percent lesser or higher than the official prices for each item would be given new jobs.

Governor Babatunde of Lagos state has often passionately made a case for well to do individuals and corporate organisations to give back to the society and in the process complement government’s efforts at enhancing the quality of lives of the citizenry, particularly the masses. This was a request that Otunba Yomi Ogunnusi, an Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, member in the Federal House of Representatives recently heeded and acted upon.

WINNER of the inaugural Penguin Prize for African Writing in the non-fiction category, Professor Pius Adesanmi has attributed greed and insatiable appetite for the national cake as the bane of Nigeria’s woes.

Residents of Lagos have expressed the need to have a constitution that would allow for the practice of true federalism as well as provide for local governments autonomy in the country.

For Emmanuel Obasi, his decision to join a notorious robbery gang that operate within Maza-Maza and it’s environ in Lagos State, may not have been the best for him, following his recent arrest. The 28-year-old man who is now a guest at the State Special Anti-Robbery-Squad, SARS, is currently bemoaning the decision which almost cost him his life.