The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a petition to Ms. Monica Pinto UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers requesting her to urgently prevail on the National Judicial Council (NJC) to suspend the judge involved in the alleged receipt of N225, 000 bribe.

DEAD local industries may come to life again, as the Federal Government has secured some measures from the World Trade Organization to combat dumping.

Angry reactions have continued to trail last weekend’s sudden rescheduling of the re-run elections for Okigwe senatorial seat and some state constituency seats in Imo State.

The parlous state of the economy attracted the concern of Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka who, after paying a visit to the Information and Culture Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohmmed, last week, called on the Federal Government to summon an emergency economic conference to discuss a hoslitic way out of the current tempetuous doldrums.

A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain in Edo State and an economist, Mr Osahon Igiebor, yesterday said that Governor Adams Oshiomhole was running foul of best international financial principles of accountability.

Senator Magnus Abe, the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate in the Rivers South-East senatorial district re-run election has enjoined Ogoni people not to allow party differences and affiliations to affect their affinity and unity.

The Chairman of Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts Nigeria Limited, Mr. Jide Omokore, has reportedly been cooperating with operatives, who are probing him over multi-billion oil swap deals between his firm and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.

LAGOS— Despite current drop in power generation and supply, the directive by the Senate to suspend the new 45 per cent tariff hike remains invalid, as the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, said it lacked the constitutional authority to reverse the order.

Minister of Interior, Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd), weekend, said that the Federal Government would continue to tackle the security threat posed by Fulani herdsmen in the country.

TWELVE aggrieved oil producing communities in Bayelsa State have threatened to shut down operations of Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, over the company’s handling of its relationship with the host communities.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has initiated contempt proceeding against Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, over his alleged refusal to in line with judgment of the Supreme Court, recognise the Ejike Oguebego -led leadership of the party in Anambra State.

Coalition for Good Governance and Economic Justice in Africa, CGGEJ, weekend commiserated with the government and people of Kano State over last Thursday’s fire that gutted the multi-billion Naira Singer Market, where goods and cash estimated at N3 billion were destroyed.

The Arewa Consultative Forum and Ohanaeze Ndigbo have condemned the killing of unarmed Biafran agitators by security agents and asked the Federal Government to release Nnamdi Kanu,Okechukwu Isiguzoro and other detained MASSOB agitators.

The Peoples Democratic Party , PDP, has won the three legislative positions at Saturday’s re-run elections in Taraba State.

IMMEDIATE past Senate President, who was declared winner of last Saturday’s senatorial re-run election in the Benue South district, by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Senator David Mark, yesterday called for reconciliation among the people of the area, promising not to betray the confidence reposed in him by electorate.