Called up for the exercise and grilled especially over his stint as governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi challenged anyone to produce an invoice of 50 million naira bed he was accused of buying in the state house during his tenure.”I challenge anyone to bring an invoice of a bed in the state house that is worth N50m. I did not spend irresponsibly on it. It is probably one of the cheapest state houses in Nigeria. I used my relationship to raise a lot of funds with institutions like the World bank, DFID etc. There is no country that does not borrow. I did not borrow to pay salaries.”

The Education Rights Campaign, ERC, has strongly condemned the Osun State government for brutalizing students of the state-owned higher institutions who embarked on a peaceful demonstration in the state capital, Osogbo, to protest the continuous closure of their campuses as a result of government’ refusal to meet striking lecturers’ demands.

The Rivers State National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja, yesterday, upheld the elections of four federal lawmakers from the state who were on March 28, elected on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Jigawa State governor, Muhammad Badaru Abubakar, has led a 20-man delegation to attend international trade fair for two weeks in the People’s Republic of China.

The youth president of Obung community in Akamkpa Local Government Area of Cross River State, Mr. Philip Ogar, has expressed his community’s delight that the 260 kilometer superhighway being undertaken by Governor Ben Ayade’s administration is passing through their land.