The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has quizzed two leading politicians in connection with the $115 million cash disbursed by Fidelity Bank on the instruction of the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison Madueke.

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, on Thursday, said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is set to win all the states of the federation in the 2019 general elections.

The Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has on Thursday disclosed his involvement in the ’leaked’ secret letter written by former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and now Emir of Kano, Sanusi Muhammad 11 to then President Goodluck Jonathan on the non-remittance of $49.8 billion from oil sale to the federation account.

A bomb went off in a graveyard south of Baghdad Thursday, killing five people among a group of mourners at a burial, Iraq’s interior ministry spokesman said. The attack took place in Haswa, about 40 kilometres (25 miles) south of the capital, the same area where a suicide bombing ripped through a football trophy ceremony in March.

There comes a time when silence is not golden, when policy makers and decision making institutions deliberately and needlessly extend prompt decision on an issue of national importance or even refuse to proffer an amicable way forward in line with national interest.