The embattled former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki, retd, yesterday, failed to persuade an Abuja high court sitting at Maitama to stop the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, from prosecuting him on a 22-count criminal charge bordering on alleged diversion of N19billion arms fund.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has taken a swipe at Governor Yayaha Bello of Kogi State over the demolition of roundabouts in Lokoja, the state capital over allegation of voodoo power planted under them by past administrations. This is coming just as the Audu/Faleke Campaign Organisation also condemned the exercise, said the demolition was ill-formed and demonstrate the cluelessness of the governor on issues of priority of governance.

Chief Iyobosa Solomon Edebiri (ISE) is not your run of the mill politician as he confessed penultimate Friday. An encounter with senior journalists including a sprinkling of media executives and some veteran journalists confirmed that fact as seen in the way he sauntered into the parley. Clad in a black suit as if set for another business meeting, and not a political dinner, he had on arriving the venue of the dinner in Ikeja, Lagos, proceeded straight to the middle of the high table and sat down. Surely not your typical politician who would come in shaking, patting here and there, albeit pretentiously telling you how long he had desired to see you, though not from his heart.

The budget is unquestionably one of the major levers of the legislature in determining the shape and structure of governance. By holding the power of the purse, the National Assembly is able to determine the expenditure of the Federal Government in any given year. It is thus not surprising that the committees on appropriation are about the most coveted in the Senate and the House of Representatives. Legislators would crave, covet and bribe to become members of the committee on appropriation. In almost all cases, the chairmanship of the committee on appropriation in either the Senate or the House of Representatives is almost always reserved for close associates of the Senate President or the Speaker of the House.

Hell was let loose recently at the Brown street, Oshodi as hoodlums and touts who claimed membership of the National Union of Road Transport Workers turned the ever-busy and yet-to-be transformed modern garage into a theatre of war and slaughter slab. Armed with all sorts of dangerous weapons, including guns, machetes, cutlasses and broken bottles, the bandits set aside last Wednesday for the mayhem killing one person and injuring several others. Property worth millions were destroyed. The warring factions clashed over chairmanship tussle.