One month after Dr. Kayode Fayemi was declared the winner of the Ekiti State governorship election, the failure of the outgoing governor of the state, Mr. Ayodele Fayose to recognize the fact of the victory is getting some stakeholders in the state worried.

IN the last one month, Nigerians have witnessed the movement or abandonment by politicians of one political party for another. The reasons they give have ranged from impunity, inadequate reward, harassment and undemocratic impositions by their former political parties who now perceive them as political enemies.

Rivers State Commissioner for Education and former two-time member of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon Tamunosisi Gogo Jaja has said the administration of Rotimi Amaechi left a deteriorated education sector for Governor Nyesom Wike. Jaja, in an interview in Abuja, insisted that the immediate past administration only thrived in propaganda. Excerpts:

In recent months, particularly in the wake of the utter chaos in the country, I have found myself going back again and again to the all-important question of leadership.

National Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (NASME), NEPAD Business Group Nigeria, and other participants at the second roundtable of NASME, Lagos chapter, have called for more research funding to enhance the competitiveness of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), noting that lack of relevant research system that aligns with their needs is one of the major challenges bedevilling the sector in Nigeria.

IJEBU-ODE—THE Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri has said the Federal Government has identified Ogun State as one of its key partners to grow the fisheries industry.

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Wednesday saluted the roles of the Benin Monarch, Oba Ewuare II and the European Union in the fight against human trafficking and illegal migration in the state, in the last one year.

BARELY two weeks after the close of third term and the ushering in of long vacation, children are seen back at schools all in the name of summer lesson.

BENIN—THE wind of defections blowing across the country has once again berthed in Edo State as some notable members of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, have defected from the party for  the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

UGHELLI—IMM-EDIATE past governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has cleared the air over the shutdown and subsequent abandonment of the viewing centres erected in various parts of the state during his administration.

Lagos States Government, yesterday, arraigned 50 suspects before Chief Magistrate Bola Osunsanmi of Court 4, Ikeja Magisterial District, over an attack and vandalisation of government equipment (caterpillar) around Idansan village, Ibeju, Lekki, Lagos.

NIGERIAN Citizens, NCNC, won an election into the Western Region House of Assembly. Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s Action Group, AG, had been defeated. This was short-lived.

SINCE the takeover of the generation and distribution of power supply in November 2013 by the private individuals otherwise known as generation companies, GENCOs and Distribution companies, DISCOs, some of them have been having running battles with Organised Labour over right to freedom of association, conditions of service, and other unfair Labour practices including perceived indiscriminate layoffs.

WHILE the nation is still smarting from the illegal siege to the National Assembly Complex by armed and hooded men of the Directorate of State Services, DSS, which led to the summary dismissal of its Director General, Alhaji Lawal Daura, another Federal agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has embarked on some highly questionable adventures against some states.

SOME eminent Nigerians and insurance czars, yesterday, eulogised former Ohanaeze President-General and Insurance guru, Professor Joe Irukwu, SAN, and proffered solutions to the endemic challenges of the insurance industry in Nigeria.