ABUJA—A meeting of Peoples Democratic Party stakeholders is to be held in Abuja today to discuss the crisis in the party as well as the programmes put in place by the caretaker committee, headed by Senator Ahmed Makarfi, for the party’s convention and forthcoming governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states.

TO many pundits, the current governorship crisis rocking Abia State has placed the Nigerian judiciary on trial. A situation that could reinforce opinion of those that believe we are still practicing ‘democracy by court order’. Basically, Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja had in a judgment he delivered on June 27, sacked Governor Okezie Ikpeazu from office over alleged tax fraud. Justice Abang further directed the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to issue a fresh Certificate of Return to Mr. Uchechukwu Ogah who came second in the governorship primary election the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, held on December 8, 2014.

One of the four units of the turbine generator that collapsed at the multimillion Naira Shiroro Hydro station about six years ago has finally been repaired.

On June 10, 2016, Nigerian Army Spokesman, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, informed Nigerians that thirty eight senior army officers were retired based on “service exigencies”.

A frontline real estate investor and the Chief Executive Officer of Beyond Building Investment, Mr. Lanre Howells, has said the reason behind their digital farm estate is to bridge the gap between large scale farmers and small scale farmers and also to create more employment opportunities for Nigeria’s teaming youths.