A sequel to the still unsettled crisis in the All Progressives Congress, APC, arising from last week’s National Assembly leadership contest, another crisis may be in the offing as lawmakers take up battle with national officers of the party over the appointment of principal officers of the legislature.

The Rivers State Government and the former state Commissioner for Information, Mrs Ibim Semenitari, traded words, yesterday, over the recovery of what the state government described as government vehicles, from the former commissioner who, however, insisted that the vehicles rightfully belonged to her, but were taken away from her residence in an attempt to rubbish her reputation.

After spending nearly three weeks in the saddle, President Muhammadu Buhari is set to move into the Presidential Villa and commence serious business of governance next week, a competent Presidency source confirmed to Vanguard.

A CLOSER look at the last laws the previous National Assembly passed in its final sitting reveals a trap – one of the most applauded laws, the stiff sentences against rape and sexual abuse, supports child marriages. It is a legal assault on our future.

NIGERIAN workers like all other citizens live under same conditions, of providing their own power through electricity generators, water through bore holes, depend on the consulting medical offices we call hospitals,etc,but the difference is that their take home pay is usually too meager to provide for their basic needs

A Federal High Court sitting in Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital has ordered the Department of State Security to pay one million Naira over illegal detention of an Islamic cleric, Abdul-Ganiyy Ibrahim-Jimoh.

ONE of the most controversial personalities ever to don the cassock, is on his way to sainthood. After a quarter of century of protests and resistance, including by the church in his country, Oscar Romero has been beatified by the Catholic Church. This is coming eighteen years after then Pope John Paul II personally took up the battle to honour him.

From Osun State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday came a warning that the state may be plunged into serious security crises, if salaries are not paid within seven days.

In the estimation of many, the inability of President Muhammadu Buhari to make key appointments three weeks after its inauguration is a cause for concern.

In the wake of the Flying Eagles and the Super Falcons’ unimpressive outings on the international scene, the Nigeria Football Federation seems to be looking towards the direction of expatriate coaches to handle the national teams.

President Muhammadu Buhari must rescue the solid minerals sector from the cabal that has held it hostage for nearly two decades, if the new administration is to unleash that industry’s huge potentials.

THE Ekiti State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC and Governor Ayodele Fayose yesterday disagreed over the alleged award of N720 million as payment arrears of the governor’s unfinished first term

A panel beater at Obollo-Afor in Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State has been shot dead while his colleague was badly wounded in an attempt to kidnap a returnee from Europe in his country home at Amube, Enugu-Ezike.

Unknown gunmen, suspected to be assassins, Wednesday night, sneaked into the residence of an Egba Chief, Oluwo of Ikanna, Chief Moses Oyebade, at Ago-Oba area of Abeokuta South Local Government Area of Ogun State, and shot him dead.

MANUFACTURERS in the country, yesterday, voiced their anger over excessive billings by the distribution companies, DISCOs.

Accordingly, Dr. Sam Amadi, the Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, told the manufacturers in Lagos that the Commission had suspended take-off of the new electricity tariffs until the DISCOs have adequately consulted with industrial, commercial and residential consumers.