Senator Gbenga Kakah, former deputy governor of Ogun State, in this interview warns that if the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari must succeed, the president should consider dropping some ministers in the next six months. He also spoke on other issues.

ABUJA — President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, distanced himself from the proposed Social Media Bill currently being debated in the Senate seeking to restrict Nigerians from “criticizing” political and public office holders.

Commissioner for Health, Mr. Dominic Ukpong, who conveyed the governor’s concern to students, last Friday, said the state government would start addressing challenges of main concern in the school soon, starting with the construction of new toilets, extension of classroom blocks and grading of dilapidated roads leading to the school.

ILE-IFE — NEWLY-crowned Ooni of Ife Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi has promised that a new Yoruba nation where youth empowerment is the focus will emerge during his tenure. Ogunwusi’s coronation is coming five months after the demise of Oba Okunade Sijuwade, who passed on at 85. The new Ooni is the 51st Ooni to ascend the throne, and his coronation came exactly 35 years and one day after the immediate-past Ooni, Oba Sijuade was presented the staff of office.

THE recent call by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, on the Federal Government to probe a former Minister of Finance Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala over how the funds recovered from the late Gen Sani Abacha ,retd, were spent, has elicited counter reactions from the ex-minister.

Governor Seriake Dickson and Chief Timipre Sylva were on parrallel paths yesterday over the INEC’s cancellation of results from Southern Ijaw, the home council of deceased Governor General of Ijaw Nation and first civilian governor of the state, Chief DSP Alamieyeseigha. While Dickson hailed the move, Sylva kicked, saying that the REC has no power to do so.

FORMER military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, has disagreed with critics of former President Goodluck Jonathan who described him as incompetent saying Jonathan was rather “inexperienced” rather than “incompetent.”

LAGOS — Seven suspected cultists, said to be terrorizing Ijora Badia and its environs in Lagos, have been arrested during initiation by officers of the Lagos State Police.

It all started as most great things – small. In 2002, an idea to make the next Tuesday after the Thanksgiving Day in The United States of America a day specially set aside worldwide for voluntary giving to charity was spawned.

LAGOS—The Lagos State Rapid Response Squad, RRS, an arm of the Lagos State Police Command headquartered in Alausa, Ikeja, yesterday, paraded four men found with Indian hemp.

The Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy, CASLE and the Commonwealth Association of Planners, CAP have called on the Commonwealth Heads of Government, CHOGM 2015 to take the world lead in implementing in partnership with civil society, the historic new Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations in September, entitled, Transforming our World -the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

THE mass sack of back-up staff at Warri Refinery and Petrochemical Company, WRPC, Ekpan, Uvwie Local Government Area, Delta State, has sparked off tension in some of the company’s host communities, as they have vowed to go to any length to reverse the development.

Akwa Ibom State Government has assured that the state’s Airport taxiway will be completed and commissioned in July 2016, following the extent of work achieved so far.

Delta State Commissioner for Lands, Survey and Urban Development, Chief Dan Okenyi, yesterday, said that the state government, in its determination to curb land speculation and profiteering, would recover and re-allocate all undeveloped plots of land in the Core Area of Asaba, the state capital, to deserving people.

The Federal Government has been asked to hold justice in high esteem if it is to solve the problem of corruption and other challenges confronting the nation.