ANAMBRA State government and the state branch of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have started trading words over the status of local government officials whose tenure would expire on Thursday next week. The state chairman of PDP, Prince Kenneth Emeakayi had on Monday warned of what he described as a looming anarchy and bloodshed in the state government if the state government fails to conduct the council polls before January 14, 2016 when the tenure of the incumbent officials in the third- tier of government would end.

Lagos—A faction of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, led by George Kaiserye and Tubotamuno Alalibo in the ongoing crisis in the union, has told the National Industrial Court sitting in Lagos, that effort to settle out of court in the suit challenging Wabba Ayuba’s eligibility to contest election as President of NLC, has proved abortive.

An unidentified 70-year-old woman was, yesterday, crushed to death by an articulated truck at the Railway Crossing Intersection in Agege, Lagos State, just as two people lost their lives, while two others sustained injuries in an auto crash, which occurred at the Ota Tollgate in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area, Ogun State.

EIGHT commercial motorcycle operators, Okada riders, where arrested yesterday in Ughelli while several motorcycles where impounded by policemen attached to the Ughelli Area command following protest over the increase of local government’s daily tickets price to N150.

IN the days of innocence, the preachment was ‘Blessed are the peace makers’. In these days of globalisation, rather than make peace, nations tend to stoke the fires of conflict. So is it with the Saudi Arabia-Iran spat which began with the January 2, 2016 mass execution of forty seven persons after trials which even the usually complacent United Nations described as raising “serious concerns over the nature of the charges and the fairness of the process”

African leaders, including ministers of health, finance, and other line ministries, will gather in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 24-25 February 2016, for the Ministerial Conference on Immunization in Africa – the first-ever ministerial-level convening with a singular focus on ensuring that people across the continent can get access to life-saving vaccines.

This Aayah outlines the structural reality found in the human nature when it comes to issue of relationships. It says: “…then invested him with ties of blood and marriage”, in other words man is naturally tied by the rope of human fraternity through blood relations and marriage. You and I are either someone else’s son, daughter,grandson, granddaughter, farther, grandfather son in law, daughter in law father, grandfather or husband and wife.

Ogun State House of Assembly has passed the 2016 Appropriation Bill of N200,200, 453, 352.00 reflecting a marginal reduction of about N74m from the total of N200,274,453,352 presented to the lawmakers by the State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun a month ago. Amosun had proposed a total budget of N200.27billion as Appropriation Bill for 2016 fiscal year to the State House of Assembly.

Ekiti State has been in the news for several reasons since the second coming of Mr Ayodele Fayose as the governor of the state in October 16, 2014. Ekiti, like every other state in the federation depends on federal allocation for survival and as a matter of fact, eighty percent of its revenue is derived from the federal allocation, thus if the federal allocation sneezes, Ekiti would definitely catch cold and in-truth since the major Nigeria revenue earner, which is oil started experiencing dwindling fortunes, from the olympian height of $140 per barrela few years ago to its present low of $34, the effects on Ekiti has been very profound.

OF the states in the South West Region, attention would be shifted towards Ondo state next year as the governorship election is scheduled to hold latest by October. The two term tenure of the incumbent governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko will lapse and a new chapter in the polity of the state would be opened. On- going alignment and re- alignment within the two leading political Parties APC and PDP will definitely shape events in the new year.