THE President inaugurated the National Conference in Abuja on Monday. By so doing, he has fulfilled another promise of “this nebulously packaged Transformation Agenda”. Another noise making gathering of the people has commenced. It shall produce nothing except the desires and wishes of the man who singled out everyone that is qualified to be member, and that is the President himself.

IN their efforts to take the gains of the Federal Government amnesty programme for Niger Delta militants to the grassroots, former militants are now taking the non-violence philosophy to primary and secondary schools in the region

EGBEMA for Positive Change, EPC, in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State, has appealed to Egbema Radical Change, ERC, the Ijaw group which admitted blowing up the Dibi pipeline, operated by Chevron Nigeria Limited, last week, to give government time to address their grievances

Fifty-one lawmakers that defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, persuaded the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court to suspend judgment on a suit they entered before it with a view to stopping their former party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from declaring their seats vacant

Ohanaeze Youth Council, OYC, has condemned exclusion of Igbo youths from the list of delegates to the National Conference, blaming it on unwillingness of spent Igbo elders to allow young elements play leadership role in the region.

ELECTIONS present the best opportunities for candidates to say the worst things about their opponents. Threats and counter threats appear to be the only selling points of most candidates. We are seeing more threats as people jostle for space in the governorship elections in Ekiti (June) and Osun (August).

EXPECTATIONS of hundreds of people whose relatives are still missing were dashed, yesterday, in Ibadan when the demolition of the kidnappers’ den at Soka in Ibadan, where hundreds of people have been killed by suspected ritualists, was stopped midway by men of the Oyo State Police Command.

Lagos State government, yesterday, declared that the state is expecting 263 days of rainfall this year and this may be accompanied with strong winds, lightning and thunderstorms.

ABUJA—AHEAD of June 21 Ekiti State gubernatorial election, National Leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP declared yesterday that former governor Ayo Fayose who won last week’s primary election to defeat others, remains the party’s candidate for the election.

The Nasarawa State House Assembly has called on Governor Umaru Al-Makura to immediately relieve the state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Innocent Lagi, of his appointment over misconduct.

Tales of food shortages for the delegates at the national confab continued to be an issue, yesterday. Monday, the actual first day of plenary recorded the worst day. Food was in drastic short supply.

A member of the Special Task Force, STF, in Plateau State ( names withheld), has allegedly raped a four-year-old girl in Kassa village, Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of the state.

Villagers said the suspect was in the habit of raping minors as this was the third time he had committed the act by luring victims into his makeshift tent.

PEOPLES Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, has lampooned Governor Kayode Fayemi over his comments on the emergence of Fayose as the governorship candidate of the party, saying it is purely an internal affair of PDP.

TRAGICALLY, somebody must now die for other members of his family to be offered jobs. The policeman must be cut down by the assassin’s bullet for his children to get scholarship to go through their university education.

ABUJA—Fifty-one lawmakers that defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, persuaded the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court to suspend judgment on a suit they entered before it with a view to stopping their former party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from declaring their seats vacant.