Chairman, Mobilisation and Organisation Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in South West, Prince Buruji Kashamu has faulted the claim by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that he has been indicted as a drug baron in the United States as a cocktail of lies.

MORE groups and individuals, including former President of Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Chief O.C.J. Okocha, SAN, have condemned the abduction of the immediate past president of the NBA, Mr. Okey Wali, SAN, and demanded his immediate release unconditionally without harm.

Three national primary mortgage institutions, PMIs – Messrs Imperial Homes Mortgage Limited, TrustBond Mortgage Plc and Abbey Mortgage- have concluded plans to come together as a syndicate to finance the development of Grand Lake Estate.a housing project in Ajah area of Lagos.

Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State, yesterday, charged the newly elected President of Nigerian Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Melvin Pinnick to try by all means to revive the fortune of Nigerian Football, saying that posterity will hold him responsible for the success or otherwise of the assignment before him.

AS Nigerians lament erratic power supply across the country, Oyo State Police Command has arrested 20 suspects, including a staff of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Centre, IBDEC, Mr. Olanrewaju Isaiah, for selling stolen cables and other electrical materials at Salvation Road, Oke Padre, Ibadan.

Coach Stephen Keshi has alleged there is a gang-up against him not to succeed as Nigeria face elimination from next year’s AFCON in Morocco.

Mixed feelings have continued to trail efforts of the Lagos State Government to tackle the menace of noise pollution in the metropolis, whose population is put at 21 million.

The Aiteo Group has finally confirmed the acquisition of 85 per cent equity in Oil Mining Lease, OML 29, being divested by the Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, yesterday, received over 4,000 members of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, into All Progressives Congress, APC, even as he called on the state Police Command to stop arresting innocent people over last Saturday’s violent attack on the state House of Assembly quarters in Benin.

The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Federal Operation Unit, Zone ‘C’ has impounded over 88 exotic vehicles estimated at N140 million after bursting a smuggling ring.

THE Enugu East Senatorial seat had for long before the present incumbent almost always attracted national figures. It was the seat occupied by Senators Jim Nwobodo, Ken Nnamani and subsequently, the Ebeano phenomenon player, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani. The present occupant, Senator Gilbert Nnaji though of no little political antecedent, has, however, not shown the kind of sophistication or class pulled by his predecessors.

The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has said the Federal Government is committed to pursue an aggressive and robust implementation of the various initiatives designed to accelerate the provision of adequate gas supply for power generation in the country.

Victims of a fuel tanker explosion at Molete in Ibadan, Oyo State which claimed about 15 lives and left several others severely injured last Saturday have been counting their losses since the unfortunate incident happened.

Ekiti State Governor-elect, Mr Ayo Fayose, has raised an alarm that the outgoing government of Dr Kayode Fayemi has finalized arrangements to raise a sum of one billion Naira fresh loan from a new generation bank barely four days to the end of its tenure.

The first civilian governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha’s son, Oyamuyefa Alamieyeseigha, is dead.