THE former Chairman of Isi-Uzo Local Government Council, Augustine Nnamani yesterday emerged as the new chairman of the PDP in Enugu State. Also elected were Cletus Akalusi, Secretary and other members of the state executive committee of the party.

FORMER Minority Whip of the House of Representatives, Mr Samson Osagie, has urged All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State to take seriously, the threat of the five governors of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the South South to win the state for their party.

Former military governor of Akwa Ibom State, Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga, who was invited by EFCC on Monday over claims that he received N450 million of campaign fund from Fidelity Bank, was freed last night.

THE governorship ambition of chairman of the Economic Team of Edo State Government and aspirant of All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has received a boost, with delegates from the three local governments in Etsako endorsing his candidacy.

The Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State, yesterday, held three parallel congresses that produced three parallel state executives.

Mixed reactions from Nigerians, on Tuesday, trailed comments credited to British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron, that Nigeria was “fantastically corrupt.”

ONE of the most socially significant bills to be introduced by a legislator is now before the Senate. Its proponent is Mr. Ovie Omo-Agege, only about three months old in that conclave of self-inflating legislators who crave the bogus adulation of “distinguished senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.” By this bill alone, Omo-Agege has surpassed what older tenants of the Senate, some in their third or fourth terms, can ever hope to achieve besides living large and laundering our stolen moneys in offshore tax havens.

IT was ten years ago this week that the first article appeared in this space. It was 13 May, 2006, I think, that the first article was published.

THE Lagos State Government has identified over 500 new distressed and abandoned buildings that could collapse any moment in the state.

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Group Managing Director, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, yesterday, revealed how he received threats from a Niger Delta militant.

Since the defeat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the 2015 general election, the party has continued to lose grip with its support base arising from the spate of defections hitting the party.

The Federal Government, yesterday, told the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja that the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, owned 14 exotic cars worth N263.4 million, prior to his emergence as the governor of Kwara State in 2003.

AN unnamed Qatar Stars League outfit are exploring ways to sign Odion Ighalo from Watford in the summer.

DELTA State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday held a consensus State Congress with Barrister Kingsley Esiso emerging as its State Chairman and Mr Val Areyinka as State Deputy Chairman.

FORMER Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd), yesterday berated those agitating for the sovereign state of Biafra, reminding them of the unifying role the late first President of Nigeria, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, played during the civil war, despite hailing from the secessionist side.