LOCAL stores and superstores are locked in an intense battle for consumers’ pockets with price offerings

OWERRI—EMBATTLED Imo State Deputy Governor, Prince Eze Madumere, has dragged the State Chief Judge, Justice Paschal Nnadi, the Speaker, Imo State House of Assembly, Mr Acho Ihim and Imo State House of Assembly to court, urging it to quash the planned impeachment initiated by the lawmakers.

The All Progressives Congress, APC in Osun State had until now been almost united in accord through the hills and valleys. The unity of the party in the state was not shaken even at the height of the salary crisis in the state that saw the administration not being able to pay salaries of workers for up to one year.

THE Lagos State University, LASU, yesterday, said it had issued a query to an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics over alleged sexual assault of a student, and the case was already before a Joint Action Disciplinary Committee.

EDO  House of Assembly has called on the Nigeria Police Force to set up a panel of enquiry to investigate the gruesome murder of four policemen in Owan West Local Government Area of the state.

Rivers State Internal Revenue Service, RSIRS, has again sealed off the Port Harcourt head-office of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, over alleged tax liabilities, disrupting activities at the commission, yesterday.

Organised Labour in Kwara State, has pleaded with the state government to immediately pay the pensioners in the state N900 million owed them in order to stop further deaths among the senior citizens.

The Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Osun State has written the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the crisis tearing the party apart in the state just as it expressed shock at the blatant disobedience to court orders by the electoral body.

We are waiting impatiently for the Presidency to also affirm these attacks as “genocide” and immediately mobilise the armed forces to move in and bring the aggressors and their sponsors under the full weight of our laws.

The high and low in Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District defied the rains to affirm support for Governor Udom Emmanuel’s second term aspiration last Monday in a political carnival unequalled in recent times.

ABUJA—The National Industrial Court, NIC, sitting in Abuja yesterday slated October 12 to deliver judgement in a suit the former Acting Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, NIA, Mr. Mohammed Duada, filed to challenge his sack by the Federal Government.

Prospective subscribers of Satellite pay  TV  network, Kwesé TV may not need to go far to connect to the network, especially if there is any 9mobile experience centre near them.This is as the pay Tv network and telecommunication company, 9mobile  have signed a distribution agreement for the sale of Kwesé TV decoders.

The All Progressives Congress, APC has reaped N127.5 million from the sales of forms for tomorrow’s governorship primary.

Akure—A quack doctor, Adewale Owolanke,  operating an illegal hospital, which have caused the death of many innocent people, has been arrested.

TO a number of well-to-do Nigerians, it doesn’t matter who wins elections, who becomes senator, governor or president, because they believe they will always have access to contracts, businesses and opportunities and that they are above caring how this country is run. Unfortunately, neither the elite nor the middle classes seem to have learnt lessons from the recession or the consequences of free spending, little savings or real investments.