BENIN—CHAIRMAN of People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, Chief Dan Orbih, Tuesday, accused Edo State Independent Electoral Commission, EDSIEC, of flouting its guidelines for the conduct of the April 20, local government elections in the state, alleging that the electoral body turned a blind eye to the imposition of candidates by the leadership of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in the state.

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Umar Manko, yesterday, said investigation into the alleged killing of an Assistant Superintendent of Customs, Baba Mohammed, last Saturday by his colleague, along Seme-Badagry expressway, had begun.

THE charade around the conduct and fate of an Assistant Director in the Federal Civil Service who exercises responsibility as Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Abdurrasheed Maina appears set to continue.

Controversy has begun to trail the death of a commercial sex worker in a brothel on Empire street, Mushin, Lagos, with the police yet to unravel the circumstances surrounding the tragedy.

IT is not very often that traders here complain about products from a foreign country; in fact, it is a rare occurrence. This is because in this economy, consumers prefer foreign-made goods to locally made ones, even when the foreign ones are visibly inferior to those made locally.