AS the leadership crisis in the House of Representatives lingers, the former Minority leader of the House and preferred candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the Speaker position, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila has been accused of threatening to make the House hot when plenary resumes if he was not made leader.

President Muhammadu Buhari has rather wisely turned the spotlight on recovering stolen funds. The President recently confirmed that his government has “received firm assurances of cooperation from the U.S. and other countries on the recovery and repatriation of funds stolen from Nigeria. According to the President, “the government in the next three months will be busy getting facts and figures needed to help us recover our stolen funds in foreign countries.”

lagos—Baring any unforeseen circumstances, the coroner inquest into the Synagogue collapse building will today deliver its final verdict at the Coroner court, Ikeja.

Ignorance of who Mr. Solomon Arase (Inspector General of Police) is gave out a 33-year-old man arrested for impersonating a Police Constable.

PROF. Attahiru Jega, whose tenure as chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ended last week has etched his name on the positive side of Nigerian history. He led the country through the least litigated presidential elections in his five years stewardship of the country’s Election Management Body.

Ibadan—THE relative peace that reigns at Iwo road interchange, Ibadan, was ruptured yesterday as some Vehicle Inspection Officers, VIO, caused the death of a motorcyclist who fell under a Lagos bound articulated vehicle which crushed his head instantly.

The 38-year-old native of Ijebu-Ife, Ogun State, was driving home on that fateful day after the church programme when she noticed through the side mirror that four strange men on a motorcycle were trailing her. The men followed the car up to the gate of their house. And before Gbemisola’s seven-year-old daughter who had just alighted from the car could open the gate, the men swooped on the car, grabbed her five-year-old son and flung him out of the car before making away with Gbemisola.

ON 3 June 2015, I was a guest on CoolTV’s morning programme, “Good Morning Nigeria.” The topic was “Buhari’s job as a democrat.” I added “so far,”on reading the invitation e-mail, wondering if the show’s producer or anchor hadn’t betrayed an unusual case of what might be called “change anxiety.”

SECOND Republic politician and one of the founders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Guy Ike Ikokwu, wants all Nigerians to rally round President Muhammadu Buhari, to actualise his change agenda or the country will pay direly for it.

Former Super Eagles defender, Taribo West was the least surprised when news about Stephen Keshi’s sack broke out. His first reaction was “I saw it coming.”

NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, faction led by Joe Ajaero has said the death of Emma Ezeazu, former President of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, and activist, should propel a united labour movement and genuine reconciliation in NLC.

Managing Director of Union Admiralty Ltd, UAL, Mr. Ibi Seddon, has blamed the dominance of foreign vessels in the lifting of refined petroleum products from mother ships offshore to storage facilities on the fact that Nigerian-owned ships are not sea-worthy.

Nigeria Paralympic Committee yesterday began its open championships to select athletes for the forth coming All African Games billed for September in Congo Brazzaville.

ABUJA—The Presidency, yesterday, said President Muhammadu Buhari would not intervene in the lingering crisis rocking the National Assembly, citing separation of powers as reason for that.

ABUJA — THE United States’ crude oil producers are pressuring the government and congress of the US to lift the longstanding ban on the country’s export of crude oil.