The feud between Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi and Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade over the celebration of Oranyan festival was re-ignited, weekend, as Alaafin said Oranyan was never in any of the four royal lineages of Ile-Ife.

The three tiers of government are to share the sum of N524.113 billion as statutory revenue which accrued to the Federal Account in the month of August anytime this week.

Rights activist, Mr Festus Keyamo, has emerged the consensus candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, to contest the Delta Central senatorial bye-election.

President Goddluck Jonathan, weekend, in Lagos, warned security agents against use of force to extract information and confessional statements from suspects, lamenting that some Nigerians had lost their lives in the process.

The National Treasurer of the ‘New’ Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Tanko Isiaku Gwamna, has resigned from the faction’s National Working Committee.

Some Ogoni fishing communities in Bodo have rejected an offer of compensation by Shell Petroleum Development Company, for damage done to their sources of livelihood by oil spills from pipelines operated by the company, their lawyers have said.

It is bad enough to ever be in a position where one borrows one’s money back, but for our Central Bank to have done so for so many years at rates of between 13 and 14 per cent, as admitted recently by Governor Lamido Sanusi, can at best be described as an unfortunate moral hazard, which may border on economic sabotage.

The leadership of the Kawu Baraje-led new Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, in Bayelsa State, yesterday, faulted the police clamp down on its members, saying that the group may be forced to seek redress in court to enforce its constitutional right to association.

The second story was the real wake up call to Nigerians about our dismal economic future if we continue with our over-reliance on crude oil for our survival. According to the paper, “the country [Nigeria] began a new journey into the shackles of foreign and domestic indebtedness in which by 2011, statistics indicated its total foreign debt soared to the tune of US$47.9 while the domestic debt platform rose to about US$42.3 billion, much higher than even before the debt relief”.

President of Nigeria Olympic Committee, Engineer Sani M. Ndanusa has hailed Governor of Delta State, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan for his giant role in the making of a world athletics star in the person of Blessing Okagbare.

Federal Government weekend issued a 30 day ultimatum to port terminal operators to address the observed lapses in cargo clearing at the ports. The terminal operators were also reprimanded for their inconsiderate attitude to government operatives working at the ports. This is coming on the heels of complaints leveled against port terminals by stakeholders in the maritime industry over maltreatment to port users in their efforts to take delivery of cargoes the ports.

New York police opened fire on a suspect in Times Square on Saturday night, injuring two bystanders in the city’s busiest commercial district, police said on Sunday.

A US-Russian plan to remove Syria’s chemical weapons is a “victory” that averts war, a Syrian minister said Sunday, as Washington warned that the threat of US force “remains real”.

Rights campaigners staged protest rallies across Pakistan on Sunday against the rape of a five-years old girl in the eastern city of Lahore whose condition is now relatively stable.