The Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry, ACCI, has expressed disappointment with the outcome of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Economic Retreat in Abuja, saying it failed to address fundamental issues.

THE Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sodique Abubakar, yesterday, said that the days of the Boko Haram sect were numbered, stressing the commitment of the Nigerian Armed Forces to stop the activities of terrorists in the country.

Ibadan—Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party in the South West assembled yesterday in Ibadan and resolved that the national chairmanship position of the party should remain in the Northern part of the country so as to brighten the chances of the party in the 2019 elections.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has condemned the intermittent release of the results of the Rivers State rerun elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, saying it was an evidence that the commission has now become an agent of the All Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal Government.

AS many states in the country find it difficult to stay afloat, Governor Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe State, yesterday attributed the successes recorded by his administration to the adoption and application of sound economic and fiscal policies.

Ado-Ekiti—Embattled erstwhile Secretary of the Ekiti State Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Tope Aluko may have drawn Governor Ayodele Fayose into a fresh verbal battle as he described him as a man running from his shadows, saying his day of reckoning is at hand.

The forthcoming governorship election in Edo State is a make or mar election for the different political tendencies in the state. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP which lost control of the state in 2008 vide the courts is seemingly desperate to regain control and the power brokers in the party with the notable exception of Senator Roland Owie seem determined to throw up Pastor Osaze Ize-Iyamu who ironically was the campaign manager of the incumbent, Adams Oshiomhole of the All Progressives Congress, APC four years ago. Senator Owie and some other chieftains are, however, said to be inclined towards Chief Solomon Edebiri, who ironically also came from the other side, APC to join the PDP.

VICE president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo,SAN, and Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmoud Mohammed among the dignitaries that will speak at this year’s Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Section on Business Law, SBL,10th annual conference which will hold in Abuja.

THERE is plan by the Country Chairman of the Negotiation and Conflict Management Group International, Justice Ayotunde Phillips (rtd.) to partner with the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, NIC on negotiation and conflict management.

THE senator representing Delta Central senatorial district, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has told Nigerians to continue to have faith and show support for the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration in its effort to end insurgency, corruption and block leakages, which have hitherto drawn the country backward.

NIGERIANS are passing through a survivalist phase as they are daily confronted by skyrocketing prices of goods. Cost of living is at an all time high owing to the high rate of inflation sweeping through the economy.

IN 2010, stakeholders with the collaboration of the National Assembly and civil society successfully advocated the passage of the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, Amendment Act 2010 which amongst other things empowered the commission to compel to investigate human rights violations, register her decisions with the high court as equivalent to decisions of the high court and enforceable as such, get her finances as a first line charge on government finances, independent in its operations and not subject to the directives of any authority or person, secured tenure of members who cannot be removed before the end of their tenure without an act of misconduct which removal shall be concurred by the senate.

Kogi State House of Assembly complex was yesterday sealed off by security agents on the orders of the National Assembly following the protracted leadership crisis rocking the House.

Some concerned citizens operating under the umbrella union of Ohaji Political Elite League, OPEL, have constituted an ad-hoc committee to critically look into the incessant crises bedeviling their communities, as well as enunciate ways of resolving them permanently.

No fewer than 2500 nursing mothers are benefiting from a free medical care in Enugu State under the auspices of Childhood Neuropsychiatric Disorders Initiatives,CNDI.