Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, said, yesterday, said the occasional strife among the different arms of government was unnecessary as nothing beneficial would emanate from it.

THE Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt-General Tukur Buratai, yesterday, approved special promotion of 6,199 soldiers serving in Operation Lafiya Dole.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has stated that whether people boycott elections or not, winners must emerge in any scheduled election.

Enyimba head coach, Gbenga Ogunbote insists that the club belong to the elite of African football and is eager to guide the ‘People’s Elephant’ to a place in the 2018 Caf Champions League.

JAKPA people, joined by teeming other Itsekiri folk, yesterday, besieged the palace of His Majesty, Ogiame Ikenwoli, the Olu of Warri, in protest against the Olu’s proposed conferment of Jakpa heritage title, Ologbotsere (Prime Minister) of Warri Kingdom on industrialist and politician, Chief Ayiri Emami.

ASABA, the Delta State capital, has been submerged by flood, following a down pour last Saturday, Sunday and yesterday, destroying equipment at Delta Broadcasting Station, DBS, Asaba.

Senior pastor of Latter Rain Assembly, Tunde Bakare, has described President Muhammadu Buhari, and his predecessors as colonial masters who ruled Nigeria without accountability.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has asked Governor Rochas Okorocha and chieftains of All Progressives Congress, APC, to hide their faces in shame, for “senselessly toying with the precious lives of pensioners and workers in the state.”

President and founder of Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, Dr. Frederick Fasehun has said electing and appointing old people into political offices in Nigeria is a sign of failure in the country.

THE Federal Government, yesterday, pledged to complete the river ports located at Baro in Niger State, Lokoja in Kogi State and Oguta in Imo State, which have been abandoned for about a decade before the end of 2019.

Effort by former governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi to stop the Judicial Panel of Inquiry set up to investigate financial dealings under his administration hit the rock yesterday, as an Ado-Ekiti High Court refused his application for an interim order to restrain the Panel from further sitting.

The first interim national chairman of the All Progressives Congress APC, Chief Adebisi Akande has described the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as the greatest misadventure of the country, saying that the law could not make the progress of Nigeria work.

MOVES by some Northern senators to stop yesterday’s clause by clause debate on the report of the Senate Committee on the review of the 1999 Constitution on bills to further alter the provisions of the constitution of the country, was resisted by senators from the South and Middle Belt.

GOVERNOR Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State yesterday cleared the air on the criticism that greeted the appointment of an acting Chief Judge for the state, Justice Olanrewaju Akeredolu.

Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Arewa Lawyers Forum, ALF and Egbe Amofin, have endorsed the election of new officers of the Eastern Bar Forum, EBF, describing it as a model for others to emulate.