“We have sorted out 20 dead bodies and 50 others that were injured,” said vigilante Danlami Ajaokuta and a survivor who escaped the blast near the city’s fish market on Baga Road.

The shocking revelation that the former governor of Akwa Ibom State, GodsWill Akpabio and his successor, Udom Emmanuel, have been visiting key leaders of the APC to pave the way for their defection to the party has once again brought to the fore the inherent weaknesses in our politics. Should they be welcomed into the party, the APC would appear more as a group of people with weak moral content and poor ideological standing than an ideologically driven political party.

A Lagos High Court in Ikeja Monday dismissed the N25.7billion criminal charge preferred against the former Managing Director of Bank PHB, Mr. Francis Atuche, and others.

“We will look into it. Let’s wait and see,” said NFF president Amaju Pinnick. But Pinnick said he thought it would be “suicidal” for Keshi “to seek employment somewhere else”.

“It’s said he had a quarrel at home with some relatives and that led to one of them wounding him, apparently with a knife,” an official in charge of the investigation told newsmen.