IT was on a cool evening that I met with the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, at his Abuja residence, last weekend. It was certainly not my first meeting with him, as I knew Odigie-Oyegun since 1991 when he emerged as the first civilian governor of Edo state.

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, yesterday extolled the virtues of his predecssor in office, Dr Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, describing him as a peace advocate.

Hope for an end to the about two-year crisis in the Delta State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC was raised yesterday after the national leadership intervened to stem an imminent formal breakage of the party in the state.

THE National Judi-cial Council, NJC, has described as “unacceptable”, call by the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, for judges currently under investigation over allegations of corruption, to step down until their innocence is fully and completely established.

There were indications last night that the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, might split into two camps if the leadership does not support the Federal Government to fish out and prosecute suspected corrupt judges from the bench.

The players have done a pretty good job and huge credit goes to them; their coach, Imama Amapakabo

LEGAL luminary and elder statesman, Professor Ben Nwabueze, SAN, has advised serving justices and judges, whose homes were raided, penultimate week, over alleged graft by the Department of State Service, DSS, to step aside and clear their names in the interest of the sanctity of the Judiciary.

THE Celebration marking the coronation of the new Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare 11, which started on Thursday continues today with durbar festival which the Sultan of Sokoto, his Eminence Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar 111 brought to Benin in honour of the new Oba.

That’s the challenge we are facing now; some jumped into the business without proper foundation and legal backings and so the result is inevitable. Some want to tarnish the image of our business. What we are doing here in Enugu for instance is different from what every other person or company is doing. Before we started, we looked at the laws guiding such business and we tried to have enough legal backing to give our business a solid foundation.

ABUJA-Jeers and knocks have continued to trail the assertion by Mr. Ruben Abati that Ghosts pervade the presidential villa, Abuja.

A bosom friend of the embattled Justice Inyang Okoro of the Supreme Court, Pastor Ebebe Ukpong, yesterday, disowned the claim by the judge that he led the Akwa Ibom State All Progressive Congress Governorship Candidate, Mr. Umana Umana, to his home to lobby for his victory at the apex court.

Against the backdrop of crackdown on alleged corrupt judicial officers by the Department of State Service, DSS, the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo declared yesterday that all the three tiers of government; the executive, the legislature and the judiciary are corrupt.

Appreciation stimulates in variously. And when it comes from a mother, it is more endearing and bubbles emotions of happiness in the person infinitely. The stream of joy from this simple act strengthens and fires the zeal to spiritedly step out to do more.

THE Presidency said yesterday that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari will start the implementation of the 2017 budget, January 1, just as it stressed that as a government, it has put everything in place to achieve the set goal and target.

Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory, Justice Ishaq Bello, Friday, okayed Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf to preside over trial of the detained former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki, retd.