Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has sworn in Mr Didi Adodo as the State Commissioner for Establishments and Special Duties.

THE media, especially newspapers, online and social media are feasting on what is now referred to as famous letter sent to President Goodluck Jonathan by erstwhile former president now elder statesman, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. The ex-president wrote an 18-page letter to President Goodluck Jonathan accusing him of failing Nigerians in his position as the President of the country.

The Central Bank of Nigeria has approved the change of name of Fokas Savings and Loans Limited, an Abeokuta-based Primary Mortgage Institution (PMI) acquired by the Nigeria Police, to the Nigeria Police Mortgage Bank Limited.

I READ with much pain in my bones, heartache and running stomach the interview granted by a second Republic member of House of Representatives and a Russian trained medical doctor Junaid Mohammed, captioned 2015: there’ll be bloodshed, if Jonathan runs, warns Junaid Mohammed.

FOLLOWING planned moves to sack him as National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur said unequivocally yesterday that if the governors and others succeed, his removal will put President Goodluck Jonathan in a vulnerable position thereby making it easy for him to be harmed or attacked by perceived enemies, just as he stressed that some of the governors nursing presidential ambition would their ways.

FORMER Vice President, Atiku Abubakar yesterday said he was humbled sitting on the front- row at both the state funeral and private burial ceremonies of former South Africa President, Nelson Mandela at his native home at Qunu, near Mthatha in the Eastern Cape Province.

The Ekiti State Police Command has arrested eight persons, including a serving Permanent Secretary in Ondo State over the raid of a commercial bank in Ikere Ekiti last Thursday.

Tragedy struck, yesterday, at Oloje area of Ilorin when a housewife simply identified as Mariam allegedly struck her bricklayer husband to death with a stick following altercations between them over N100.

THE inconclusive journey of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, began in 2000 when concerns about more transparent management of the oil and gas sector resulted in the bill. It has remained controversial since then.

Well, it is very unfortunate that the PDP had to politicise a very simple matter. Definitely, the Comrade Governor was pushed to the wall. For a governor that has spent billions of naira of the peoples’ money and only gets insults and harassment simply for asking that people should perform their civic duties, that is, pay their taxes and once the taxes are paid, he deploys the money positively for the will of the people only for him to see people blocking the walkways, trading on the walkways, and whatever is left of their wares they pour into the gutters, blocking the drains and thus making the entire city so dirty!