PERHAPS, if Mr.Courage Aigbedion, was told when he was leaving Nigeria for Turkey in 2011, that he was embarking on a suicide flight, he would have dismissed it with a wave of hand.

GOVERNOR Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State, yesterday, asked the Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in the state to dismiss the application of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate in the last governorship election, Chief Olusola Oke, for lack of additional facts and evidences to argue its petition.

…Says govt ‘ll not engage her in any public debate
ABUJA—THE Presidency has again taken a swipe at former Vice President, World Bank, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, accusing her of inciting Nigerians against the Federal Government, just as it stressed that her allegations were almost stupid and senseless.

THE 36 state governors under the aegis of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF, yesterday dismissed allegations by Elder Statesman and prominent Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark that they had formed an opposition to the President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government.

Last Sunday, I incurred the wrath of my driver when I told him to take me to a church so that I can worship the King of Kings. He protested that he would not come and I thought he was joking.

Minister of Science and Technology, Professor Ita Bassey Okon Ewa has said that the Federal Government through its research agency, SHEDA Science and Technology Complex, Abuja has concluded plans to partner the European Union and United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO to enable Nigeria domesticate solar technology in the country.

A middle-aged man yesterday slumped and died around First gate, in Ikorodu area of Lagos.

Policemen attached to Bode Thomas Division in Lagos, have arrested a houseboy who allegedly connived with a robbery suspect to steal his boss’ Nissan Ultima car from his Surulere apartment.

THE Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC), says it prosecuted 31 copyright cases in 2012, 26 of which were criminal convictions of pirates and five civil suits.

UMUAHIA—THE raging altercation between the Abia State House of Assembly and the state Executive Forum on one side and the former governor of the state, Chief Orji Kalu, on the other, deepened yesterday, when the commissioners denied a statement credited to the former governor to the effect that they were not getting enough funding from the government.

Few days ago the Minority Whip of the Benue State House of Assembly, Mr. Terkimbi Ikyange narrowly escaped death when his residence was attacked at the middle of the night by yet to be identified men who set ablaze his two cars that were parked at the porch of his house.

DO State governors deserve the approbium directed at them from all informed sections of the polity? What does it feel like to be a governor and exercise the type of powers that make you at once a major source of power and patronage, and an albatross around the neck of our democracy?

The World Bank has said it will work more closely with the Federal Government in order to achieve its objective of reforming the water sector, particularly in the area of irrigation.

While listing measures that would help Nigerian IT sector to be part of digital economy, the Nigerian Computer Society, NCS, has said that effective Infrastructure sharing policy holds the key to broadband penetration in the country.

The hitherto quiet atmosphere witnessed in Uvuru Ntu, Ngor Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State recently, was truncated following sporadic gun shots by a team of policemen at about 5.45 am.