PEOPLE who have taken ringside seats in the on-going bruising fight between President Goodluck Jonathan and President Olusegun Obasanjo must have been jolted when news filtered out that the two had attended a church service at the Presidential Villa, last Sunday and had a private lunch afterwards.

Embattled former governor of Bayelsa State, Mr. Timipre Sylva, has asked a Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, to direct Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to declare him governor of the state by virtue of his election as the valid gubernatorial candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the last governorship election in the state.

It was considered one of the more remarkable points in the relationship between the executive and legislative arms of the Federal Government when at the end of last year that the National Assembly passed the 2013 budget proposals. Now all the gains are about to unravel.

OPPOSITION parties and Critics, yesterday, rose stoutly to the challenge of the Presidency to show evidence of the non-performance of President Goodluck Jonathan with various segments of the opposition and civil society rounding up the actions of the administration as the hallmark of non-performance.

SPEAKER of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr. Olawale Omirin may have incurred the wrath of his colleagues who are said to be perfecting plans to impeach him over allegation of mistrust, high handedness, arrogance and too much closeness to the executive arm of government.

The Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Joy Emodi, said yesterday that President Goodluck Jonathan and the National Assembly were still working on the 2013 budget and expressed optimism he would soon sign it into law.

FORTY-FIVE year old David Adebalogun, was popularly known as oba, meaning king in English language. He was called oba because he was considered the best well driller in and around Abule-Egba area of Lagos, a means he used to fend for his family until the unexpected happened recently.

Justice Ishaq Bello of an Abuja High Court sitting in Maitama, yesterday, adjourned the ongoing trial of erstwhile Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor to February 14.

Like they say, you may win the war and lose the peace. Indeed, we won the war against Cote d’Ivoire and lost our peace. Victory has many relatives.

LAGOS— A trial judge of Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Tuesday, in a short ruling, held that “it is a legal impossibility to commit Access Bank to prison, because it is an artificial person.”

Given that President Olusegun Obasanjo became a Man of God in the course of his very difficult times during the Sani Abacha regime, it is not surprising that he often goes out to make peace with his enemies. What sensible man wouldn’t after escaping the hangman’s noose by the whiskers?

TEN governors drawn from four leading opposition parties yesterday rose from a meeting in Lagos vowing to rescue Nigeria from the abyss she had been flung into by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP

VLEKETE Slave Market which was established in 1502 in Badagry Lagos, served as the meeting point for European slave merchants, African middlemen and slaves brought from the hinterlands who were later auctioned. Although there were other slave markets in the country, the Vlekete Slave Market was unarguably the largest and most populated.

No fewer than 50 commercial motor-cycles, commonly called Okada, caught plying the streets of Asaba, Delta State capital in violation of the ban, have been impounded. Meantime, the initial exemption extended to military personnel due to the nature of the jobs has been cancelled due to abuse.

Super Eagles coach, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, admitted on the eve of his side’s semi-final clash against the Aiglons of Mali, that he has been having selection headache since he first picked up the job of coaching Nigeria, but it’s even at a boiling point now that the team is on the verge of qualifying for the final of Afcon 2013.