The court trial of some Ibadan based bankers indicted over the theft of N8 billion worth of mutilated banknotes was yesterday told of the stupendous wealth of the suspects.

Barely a week after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, threatened to declare him wanted over alleged laundering of over N300 billion during his tenure, the former Borno State Governor, Ali Modu Sheriff, last night voluntarily surrendered to the agency for interrogation.

THE momentous 2015 political transition successfully closed with the swearing into office of the various elected executive officers, particularly President Muhammadu Buhari and the various state governors on May 29.

Intrigues over who emerges the next speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly may have overflowed from the camp of the members-elect with prominent party leaders entering the fray to dictate direction for the members.

THE Regent of Akungba-Akoko community in Akoko South West Local Government Area of Ondo State, Princess Oluwatoyin Omosowon and three of her aides were yesterday kidnapped by unknown persons.

President Buhari must resist pressure to use political appointments to compensate those who worked for his success at the polls. He must appoint credible persons who can help him lift Nigeria to the first world. This is his chance and he must utilise it so that history can remember him for good. With the resources we have in this country, there is no basis for mass poverty and suffering. He must ensure that only those who want to serve are in Government and not the political merchants who have held the country down by their greed and callousness.

These statistics do not include those deaths that were unreported or those that were premeditated, politically motivated assassinations, arson and other mayhem unleashed on the populace by politicians and their thugs. These deaths do not also include the Boko Haram attacks in Bauchi, Gombe and Yobe States during the elections which claimed several lives.

The Police at Tolu Police Division, Ajeromi-Ifelodun area of Lagos, have detained a woman identified as Hope Macaulay, 23, for reporting a dispute between her sibling and a neighbour at the station.

Sixteen days after a Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, officer was beaten comatose by Air Force officials, five security staff of the agency were also brutalised yesterday by men of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

Bayelsa State governor, Mr Seriake Dickson, has signed the Widows and Widowers’ Protection bill 2015, into law.

The low power supply from Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC, has elicited outcry from stakeholders in the South-East geo-political zone.

JAMB lists it in its brochure without warning prospective lawyers of the status of the university. Then, totally avoidable disaster occurs. In the middle of the fourth year, the NUC asked the university to close down its law programme. Several hundred students suddenly find, to their horror, that they were never law students all along. Where does a Level-400 student start all over again? Would the university refund ALL the tuition, and other fees collected from the victims of what, in effect, was a grand scam?

NEXT week’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against min-nows Chad would see the Nigeria Football Federation spend a whopping N120 million to settle bills of the large party of professionals invited for the match which takes place in Kaduna.

ON whether Udom Gabriel Emmanuel as the governor would perform in office or will not is currently the topical issue of discussion and arguments in different circles in Akwa Ibom State since after his swearing-in into office last Friday.

The above statement reportedly originated from a letter Julius Caesar wrote to the Roman Senate around 46 BC, after achieving victory against Pharnaces II of Pontius at the Battle of Zela.