THE 37 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members of the House of Representatives, who defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, appealed Justice Adeniyi Ademola’s ruling that they illegally left the PDP for the APC and, therefore, should resign.

Tragedy struck in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, Monday, when a 70-year-old man identified as Baba Ijemo allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself inside his bedroom in his Olorombo residence.

GUNMEN, yesterday, ambushed a team of policemen escorting two kidnap suspects, earlier arrested, to court for arraignment, leading to fierce gun battle, during which the suspects were killed.

SECOND Republic politician and one of the founders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Guy Ike Ikokwu does not believe that the ongoing National Conference is a waste of time.

I came to Ilorin on the order of President Goodluck Jonathan to thank the people of Kwara State for the warm reception they gave him. It was like a directive .So we gathered at the secretariat and I delivered the message to them.

Justice Ebenezer Adebajo of a Lagos High Court in Igbosere yesterday ordered a company, West Coast Investment Limited, to pay N5 million for causing one Joshua Ejiro Ejiyere to lose his right arm while feeding waste into a machine.

Former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, yesterday appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to review the activities of Abia State police commissioner to stave off a rehash of another Mbu in the state.

CONTRARY to insinuations that he was on his way out of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Deputy National Chairman (South), Senator Annie Okonkwo, has said that he has no plans of ditching the party he helped to found in the South-East.

Except that he had excelled and eventually retired from the Bench as former Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, having reached the zenith of his legal career, the chairman of the ongoing National Conference, Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi would have been mistaken by many people who perhaps are having a close contact with him for the first time by virtue of the conference for a comedian.

Government at federal and state levels, as well as corporate organizations, have been called on to work towards including women adequately in leadership positions to make Nigeria the world’s largest economy by 2050.