At least 2,650 members of the ruling All Progressives Congress and Labour Party in Ogun State have dumped their parties for the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in the state.

National Chairman of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), Mr. Peter Ameh, has described as unfair the domination of the forthcoming National Conference by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and four other political parties.

An Osun State high court sitting in Osogbo yesterday fixed Friday, March 21, 2014 for further hearing on the trial of Richard Abayomi Adesanmi, the star witness in the case of bomb explosion at the premises of the Osun State Ministry of Water Resources in June 2007.

Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, yesterday, restated his warning to political parties to stop violating the rules governing electioneering ahead of 2015 polls.

AHEAD of Saturday’s primary election for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to get its standard bearer for the June 21 Ekiti State gubernatorial election, the screening committee yesterday submitted its report to the National leadership of the party, with Senator Bode Olowoporoku disqualified because of no Tax Clearance certificate to show that he paid as at when due.

A loaded petrol tanker, which fell and caught fire at Ogborode Junction, near Warri in Delta State, has destroyed the 330kv Sapele Ughelli transmission line and brought down 12 Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN’s towers along its route.

AS reactions continue to trail the non-inclusion of Itsekiri among delegates to the proposed national conference as recently published, Warri chief and women activist, Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor, has petitioned the Secretary to Government of the Federation, SGF, Senator Pius Anyim, urging him to intervene and ensure that Itsekiri have delegates in the confab.

ABUJA—THE Federal Government, yesterday, urged a federal high court sitting in Abuja to allow it to conduct the trial of Dr Mohammed Nazeef Yunus, a lecturer at the Kogi State University and other suspected members of the Boko Haram sect, in secret.

A Nigerian oil company, Seplat Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, Limited, yesterday, accused another indigenous oil exploration and production company, Brittania-U Limited, of employing delay tactics to frustrate the suit against Chevron Group before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos

Over 355 officers and men of the Benue State Police Command were, yesterday, decorated with their new ranks in a mass promotion approved by the Police High Command

To meet a 48-hour deadline to end fuel scarcity in Lagos, the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company, PPMC, said it will inject additional 110 million litres of petrol into the market this week.

The success of government’s transformation agenda relies on the progress made in power sector reforms, which in turn, depends on developments in natural gas production. At the inception of President Jonathan Goodluck’s administration, reform of the power sector was made a top priority, and thus the Presidential Task Force on Power was constituted.

Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Water Board, Lower Usman Dam, Bwari and the Japanese International Co-operation Agency, JICA has concluded plans to fund a $10 million solar powered plant. The plant will provide electricity for the treatment of water at the Lower Usman Dam in Bwari Area Council of the FCT.

THERE were indications, yesterday, that the Federal Government is in a fix on how to accommodate the 492 delegates to the National Conference, billed to begin next Monday.

THIS is a tale of two protests; one in Russia and the other in the United States. How both stories were treated in the U.S. press tells yet another story. First, to Russia.