THE National Bureau of Statistics, NBS yesterday predicted that Nigeria’s economy is likely to shrink by 1.3 per cent in 2016 , contrary to a higher 1.7 per cent predicted by the International Monetary Fund, IMF.

SOME senior lawyers yesterday, commended the verdict of an Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) court, directing the Federal government to release former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), from detention.

IMMEDIATE past governor of Abia State, Senator Theodore Orji who in recent times, has come under severe media attacks from some politicians in the State, has dismissed the attacks, saying that they were borne out of “idleness, resentfulness and envy.”

The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has failed to persuade the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja to suspend further hearing on the 16-count charge the Federal Government preferred against him.

Niger-Delta Security Watch Organisation of Nigeria, NDSWON, yesterday, said that the senator representing Delta Central senatorial district, Delta State, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, was out of tune with the true realities in the Niger Delta region.

Igbo Leaders of Thought yesterday accused the Federal Government of pursuing an Islamisation agenda of the country, using the current killings of Nigerians across the country by Fulani herdsmen as reasons for the allegation.

The face-off between the national chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, and a national leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, got messier yesterday as the national vice chairman of the party in the South-South, Hilliard Etta, took on his counterpart in the South-West, Pius Akinyelure, accusing him of double-dealing.

Concern over cost and delays in litigation procedures together with increasing globalization have led to a more flexible means of resolving disputes which provide alternatives to court-based litigation governed by the law and procedure of a particular state or country known as Alternative Disputes Resolution (ADR).

IT was French neoclassical architect, Jean Laurent Legeay who said “In politics, as in business, you must always ask for thirty pieces of silver even though you have more than enough”. Now whether this statement more aptly defines ‘greed’ than it does politics, is an entirely different matter. Anti-Tinubus have always asked, -often self-righteously- ‘What does Tinubu want?’

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, yesterday, said that his All Progressives Congress, APC, cannot wait to meet the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in court if they have any contrary claims about the governorship election held in the state on September 28.

In support of the target of the World Heart Federation to reduce premature cardiovascular disease deaths by 25 percent come 2025, Dufil Prima Foods Plc, manufacturers of Power Oil, has embarked on a long term healthy heart mission to sensitize the public about ways to keep their heart functioning and how to maintain a low calories body system.

Former speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, has called on Nigeria and Britain to discuss modalities that would help strengthen trade relations between the two countries.

ENUGU—THE governors of the five South East states of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo have now become the butt of criticisms from the church and some rights groups over the poor handling of the crises arising from the incessant attacks by Fulani herdsmen on the people of the area.

THE Senate said yesterday that it would reject moves by Mobile Telephone Network, MTN, to sack Nigerians working in the telecommunication industry without recourse to global rules and practices.

In preparation for the all important Russia 2018 World Cup qualifier against the Chpolopolo of Zambia this Sunday, the Super Eagles yesterday defeated Nigeria Premier League side, Plateau United 3-0.