There were indications yesterday that the passage of the 2014 budget would not come easy, as the House of Representatives, has kicked against a huge amount of money being inserted in the fiscal document as Service Wide Vote, SWV, by the Presidency.

Nigerians yesterday react ed angrily to US criticisms of the country over the anti-same sex bill signed into law by President Goodluck Jonathan, Monday, saying that Nigeria will not become the modern day Sodom and Gomorrah in the name of human rights.

FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information and Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday, pleaded with the 37 members of the House of Representatives who decamped from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the opposition, All Progressives Congress, APC, to return to their former party.

The wrangling between supporters of All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kwara State yesterday degenerated as supporters of both parties struggled to take control of the former PDP office in the state.

Imo State government has dismissed insinuations of a rift between Governor Rochas Okorocha and his deputy, Prince Eze Madumere.

SENATE Committee on Police Affairs, yesterday, met with Rivers State Police Commissioner, Mr. Joseph Mbu, over last Sunday’s incident at the College of Arts and Science, Port Harcourt, where Senator Magnus Abe was allegedly shot by the Police with rubber bullets.

A Minna Chief Magistrates’ Court, Monday, sentenced a 26-year-old labourer, Salisu Umar, to 10 years imprisonment for raping a minor.

DEPUTY Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has said that the threat by about 22 aggrieved Senators of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to defect to the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, would not make the ruling party become the minority in the upper legislative chamber

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, urged the Christian faithful to pray fervently and fast for Nigeria as the country approaches 2015, the election year.

—The Governing Council of National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, will today hold an emergency meeting to perfect strategies on how to commence investigation into the allegation by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that the incumbent President, Goodluck Jonathan, was training snipers and had placed 1000 political opponents on his watch list.