DELTA State deputy governor, Prof. Amos Utuama, SAN, has said that the recent kidnap attempts on judges in the state were not only a direct attack on lives of the judges but should be seen as a challenge to the independence of the judiciary, “that undermines the essential values of our democracy.”

Angry reactions have started trailing last weekend’s peaceful protest by some priests of the Catholic Diocese of Ahiara, Mbaise, over the appointment of a bishop-elect, Monsignor Ebere Peter Okpalaeke, who was moved from Awka Catholic Diocese.

HAKEEM BABA-AHMED approaches issues of Nigerian political ethos with the energy and perspicacity of Chidi Amuta and I read him for his reading of politics in Nigeria. In his North: The goals of power, he attempts analysis of the political North in a way politics that should encourage politicians in the South to engineer a Political South.

Two policemen at a checkpoint, yesterday, lost their lives during an exchange of fire with unknown gunmen in Kano State.

A Chinese firm, Sino Arab Energy, SAE, in partnership with a local firm, Osabo Refining and Petrochemical Industry Limited, have concluded plans to build a refinery in Akabuyo, Local Government Area of Cross River State.

One year after he was sent to prison by Justice Adamu Hobon, then judge of a Federal High Court in Benin, Edo State, immediate past Attorney- General and Commissioner for Justice in Edo State, Dr. Osagie Obayuwana, has written a fresh petition to the Chief Justice of the Federation, lamenting that he was yet to get justice from the National Judicial Council.

Over eight persons yesterday escaped death but suffered various degrees of injuries from machete cuts as members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, branch 2, clashed at Federal Housing Authority FHA Bus stop at Lugbe, Abuja.

*Disagrees with CBN on inflation rate, economy
*Inflation will be reduced —CBN
*We dare FG to increase fuel price —Bakare
LAGOS — EMOTIONS ran high, Monday, as foremost Economist, Mr Henry Boyo, lamented the country’s huge debt profile estimated at N6.6 trillion, fearing that it might take about three generations to pay the debt.

ABEOKUTA – FACTIONAL leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogun State, Buruji Kashamu, Monday accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of working for the re-election of the state Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun in 2015.

THE Petroleum Products Marketing Company Limited should have many suits on its neck for the danger it poses to lives by not securing pipelines it uses in transporting products to different parts of the country.

The widely held view among built environment professionals is that the government has no business in direct housing production. To these experts, the government should only provide the enabling environment and allow individuals and the private sector to go into direct housing production.

A pressure group,Njiko Igbo, has set up a five-man committee to resolve the crisis in apex Igbo cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, over election of its leadership.

A former member of the House of Representatives, Napoleon Gbinije, has dragged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, before an Abuja High Court over alleged breach of his fundamental human right.

Indigenous Ship Owners Association (ISAN) has decried the lull in coastal shipping business, following the refusal of oil marketers to imports petroleum products occasioned by the petroleum subsidy scam.

THEY have stabbed themselves for freedom – jumped into the waves for freedom – fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and burned, and shot-and their tyrants have been their historians—Lydia Maria.