Workers in Osun State are divided over a planned strike slated to commence in the state today following the inability of the state government to meet their demands. The Comrade Olatunji Akinyemi-led Association of Senior Civil Servant was reported to have led some members of the union to protest at the state secretariat, Abere on Thursday.

THE last may not have been heard about the alleged forceful acquisition of the land belonging to a Benin prince, Ekpen Erediauwa, by Edo State Government as some Bini women, under the aegis of Concerned Edo Women, have threatened to embark on a protest to force the government off the land.

RIVERS State Government has denied allegation by People Democratic Party, PDP, that it was owing local government staff two months salaries.

A Chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party and a two-time member of the House of Representatives representing Remo North Federal Constituency, Honourable Dave Salako bares his mind on the steps the national leadership of the party should take to avert loss in the forthcoming governorship poll. He specifically urged the president to ensure he uses his office to intervene in the political imbroglio rocking the PDP

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has reiterated the need for an urgent forensic investigation of the alleged Ekiti rigging tape recently released by an army captain who recorded it.

ABUJA— A seven-year-old girl, yesterday, killed herself and five others in a suicide bombing in Potiskum, Yobe State.

ABUJA—The Federal High Court sitting in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, has awarded N.4m damage against the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, over assault on a senior staff of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Effa Okim, who was brutalized by officers of the police force.

ABEOKUTA—Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State and the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate in the state, Prince Gboyega Isiaka, have traded words over the alleged removal and destruction of billboards and posters belonging to the latter.

WARRI—The Director of Works in Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, Engr. Nelson Ophori and two others, were weekend killed in a fatal auto crash at Samagidi in Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta State.

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, warned yesterday that a new wave of Non-Performing Loans in the banking system is imminent following the recent closure of sales of foreign exchange through the Retail Dutch Auction System, RDAS, by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.