THE All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo state, market women and coalition of Civil Society organizations in the state, have shelved their planned solidarity rally for the governor elect of the state, Mr Godwin Obaseki, citing the on-going coronation ceremonies for the crowning of the Crown Prince of Benin Kingdom, Ehenede Erediauwa as the new Oba of Benin.

NIGERIANS yesterday closed ranks in their condemnation of President Muhammadu Buhari over his statement to the effect that his wife,Mrs. Aisha Buhari, who lamented that the All Progressives Congress,APC-led Federal Government had been hijacked, lacked knowledge of the workings of his administration.

For one born in the backwaters of rural Botswana where aspiration at that time was limited to becoming a migrant labourer in nearby South Africa, it is noteworthy that Ketemule Masire rose to become one of Africa’s greatest personalities.

The Enugu State Government has further appealed to the Federal Government to reimburse it the amount spent on rehabilitation of federal roads in the state totaling over N22.8 billion, saying that it would enable the state to speed up the ongoing projects in the state.

More details have emerged on why the Department of State Service, DSS, decided to clamp down on perceived corrupt judges across the federation, even as it deliberately sidelined the National Judicial Council, NJC, in the process.

BEFORE penultimate Friday’s meeting at Abuja residence of former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, where all the contending South-South groups resolved to speak with one voice, it was already obvious that they had buried the hatchet, only waiting for a formal consummation of new found unity.

Since the nationwide crackdown on Judges by the Department of State Services, DSS, penultimate Friday, there has been a hurricane of voices all over the country, some justifying the clampdown while others appeared to be saying that justice was stood on its head.

In his reaction, Femi Falana (SAN), said that the National Judicial Council (NJC) should be blamed for not stamping out corrupt judges in the system. He also criticised the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) for shielding corrupt judges despite having information about their activities.

Every bit of human knowledge is from the past whether immediate or distant. Just like historians would say, what happened long ago matters in our present lives.

Two weeks ago, the Nigerian mass media showed they are still game for any swindler who wants to manipulate them. That was when the British National Crime Agency (NCA) released a report of its internal investigation of allegations leveled against some members of the team that had investigated and prosecuted Chief James OnanefeIbori and his associates in the long-running London trial.

The pension scheme has a tremendous ability to provide the working class comfort when they retire. Over time, government has rolled out policies, the PenCom Act 2004 as amended in 2014 being one of them, to enhance workers welfare, especially when they retire, but many small businesses neglect or dodge their implementation.

A top-ranking Nigerian lawyer has respectfully disagreed with the National Judicial Council that it has the overriding powers to try all matters relating to the conduct of judges in the country.

Last weekend, Star Boy Records henchman, Ayo Balogun, aka ‘Wizkid’, reportedly fought and lost a battle of supremacy, with his Tanzanian counterpart, Ali Kiba, at the Mombasa Rocks Concert, headlined by American superstar, Chris Brown

The President advised all of us at the recently concluded Economic Summit to start patronising made in Nigeria products. I am sure many Nigerians in this harsh economic climate will not need too much prompting if the products are available and affordable. It is both patriotic and prudent to so do.

Reprieve has finally come Nigeria’s way as Germany has earmarked 18 billion euros for the revival of drying lake chad through the diversion of rivers in the Congo Basin.