ANTAGONISM against Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has assumed a new twist with a group, Rivers Integrity and Development Forum, RIDF, calling on Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to probe the governor over alleged financial abuses of the state’s resources.

Julia Oyefunke Fortune, author of ‘Chronicle of a Cancer Survivor’ and a volunter for cancer and legislative ambassador for the American Cancer Society, tells the story of her battle with cancer and her campaign against the disease.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, unveiled the tallest hotel in West Africa, the Intercontinental Lagos built at a cost of N30 billion.

All Progressives Congress, APC, weekend, raised fresh alarm over alleged plot by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Presidency to rig the 2015 general elections, especially the presidential poll.

Kidnappers of an Edo State High Court Judge, Justice Daniel Okungbowa, abducted on his way to resume at the Ekpoma Division of the high court last week, are yet to make contact with the family.

Fiscal and monetary policies are the instruments government use to manage the economy. The main focus of economic policy is the over all well being of the citizenry. Economic policy worldwide is meant to gear the economy towards full employment of resources, stable prices, balanced growth, and a favourable external reserve as a back up to exchange rate stability. These overall objectives can be conflicting and it requires men and women with deep knowledge of the workings of the economy to manage the unintended outcome of policy. In Nigeria today, it will appear that monetary policy is concerned mainly with price and exchange rate stability with little concern for balanced growth and the attainment of full employment

HE finds it very convenient to clear the cargo in Lagos and spends about N300,000 or more to bring it to this part of the country and still makes profits.

THE Abubakar Baraje-led Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, raised alarm of alleged moves to crack down on its members across the country by the presidency by committing the leadership to prison, just as it urged all its leaders and members to, as a matter of urgency, write their wills.

EkitiState Governor Kayode Fayemi and his OndoState counterpart, Olusegun Mimiko, will today, speak at a day of tributes for the late former Ondo State Governor Olusegun Agagu.

Governors of the South East and South South states, yesterday, in Enugu, declared that the determination of who will be the President of the country in 2015 would be made by the Nigerian electorate, in line with democratic tenets, warning that the power of the people should not be usurped by any group or individuals.