ETHIOPIA is primarily in the news this week, but not because it is hosting the on-going African Union (AU) Heads of State Summit. Rather, it is about two worrying developments. The advancing drought for which needed international funds are in short supply and an estimated 350,000 newborns are expected in drought-affected communities between March and August, 2016.

ONGOING brawl over deployment of top executives at the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, may have taken a new dimension with the intervention of the National Assembly.

Oporoza community in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State, has said that Chief Emami Ayiri’s alleged instigation of the Joint Task Force, JTF, against the Ijaw and insinuations that Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, was the mastermind of the recent oil pipelines vandalism in the area, could trigger another Itsekiri versus Ijaw crisis.

Eight months ago, after winning the governorship elections in Plateau state on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Governor Simon Lalong began the journey of governance by constituting different committees to look into the various activities of his predecessor, Jonah Jang, now senator representing Plateau North in the Senate.

AS an Oyo State High Court began hearing of a suit filed by Seriki royal line against the Olubadan-in-Council over the appointment of a new Olubadan of Ibadanland, counsel to the council, Mr Michael Folorunso Lana, yesterday, told the court that the complainant had only succeeded in instituting litigation against dead people. According to him, defendants in the case except Chief Saliu Adetunji are dead.