A Lagos Coroner, Magistrate Oyetade Komolafe, yesterday, said the court will issue bench warrant against some oil companies and emergency relief agencies who failed to appear before it. The Coroner which is probing the ill-fated Dana airline crash on June 3 at Iju-Ishaga, Lagos, was at the instance of the chambers of Falana & Falana and Olisa Agbakoba.

The factional crisis in Edo State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has worsened, as a group in the party, under the aegis of Stakeholders Forum, yesterday, urged the presidency and the national leadership of the party to disregard any list presented to it by the current leadership of the state PDP led by Chief Dan Orbih.

SINCE Henry Seriake Dickson, the Bayelsa State Governor, bestowed a Permanent Secretary appointment on Dame Patience Jonathan, I have spoken to several people – foreigners as well as Nigerians – who have made extremely disparaging remarks about the giver, the recipient and the recipient’s spouse.

The Delta State capital, Asaba last weekend, hosted the strategic retreat of the Senate Committee on Constitution Review, SCCR. On the fringes of the retreat, Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan took time off to field questions from a team of visiting journalists. Excerpts:

Jail beckoned on controversial Nollywood star Jim Iyke but mother nature was kind and so, the Imo state born actor was saved.