HUMAN rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, yesterday, called on the lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial district, Senator Dino Melaye to end the siege by submitting himself for arrest without any further delay.

Protest by members of Ekiti chapter of the Nigerian Bar Association over the killing of a lawyer, Adeola Adebayo, by kidnappers, paralysed activities in many courts in Ado-Ekiti, yesterday. 

Director-General of the Presidential Campaign Council of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kogi State, Chief Clarence Olafemi, has charged members of the Council to see their nomination into the various committees as a call to service, a patriotic obligation to the people of Kogi State and to deliver the state for the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

ABUJA—THE Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, said yesterday that police undercover operatives will infiltrate the ranks of political parties and their associates in order to frustrate vote buying in the 2019 general elections.

IN an election season, especially Nigeria’s electoral cycle that can better be described as a scorch-earth contestation for political power,  anything and anyone is fair game. This is so at a time that what the highly Politically Exposed Persons, h-PEP, say can deliberately be misconstrued and/or intentionally twisted to arrive at a pre-determined conclusion (no matter how senseless and outlandish) in their bids for votes. Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, is once again being pilloried for daring to speak the truth by shedding light on the pathway that his people should take if they’re desirous of contesting for power in 2023.

IN March 1952, three months before general elections, soldiers in a small country, Cuba, overthrew the government. The coup was led by a candidate and former military dictator, Colonel Fulgencio Batisa. Cuba itself was essentially a gambling and tourist country for fun-loving Americans whose mafia led by Charles Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky also ran the gambling and prostitution rings. The coup which enjoyed the approval of America seemed a settled matter. But some young Cubans, including students and young ladies, decided  enough was enough; no longer would their country be played around like football. They decided to arouse the populace to an insurrection.

Developments in Nigeria’s banking industry in 2019 will be shaped by seven global and domestic factors which will work simultaneously to impact on banks’ profitability, earnings and non performing loans. They will come with likelihood of staff retrenchment and increased confrontation between shareholders and management of banks. The seven factors and how they will likely impact the industry are presented below.

CHAIRMAN of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Yakubu Mahmood, yesterday, dismissed reports on the ban on transmission of election results saying the Commission did not make such announcement.

SENATE Deputy Chief Whip Senator Francis Alimikhena, has claimed that Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was too divided and weak to provide the needed support base to strengthen Nigeria’s democracy, describing the party as too “lousy”.

ADO-EKITI — SAVE for the quick intervention of security agencies, the violent crisis that engulfed Igbemo and Orun in Irepodun/Ifelodun Local Government Area of Ekiti State, would have consumed the communities and send most of the inhabitants to internally displaced people’s camp.

Maiduguri—A source, yesterday, revealed that two additional bodies of dead soldiers have been recovered in a surrounding bush after Saturday night attack on a military location at Buni Gari in Yobe by Boko Haram

ABUJA—The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has instituted a fresh criminal charge against former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke, before a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting at Apo.

THE year 2018 was one that many Nigerian families would want to forget in a hurry but alas they cannot. Reason: Many families across all states of the country lost members to the flickering flames of insecurity, which according to Vanguard’s tally claimed no fewer than 5,113 persons as of November 2018.

DELTA State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, has said   his administration and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  had worked so hard in the last three years and more to  deliver democratic dividends to their people that can guarantee PDP victory in next month’s elections.

Over 1,000 school boys and girls aged between 13 and 17 years old are to benefit from the three-day soccer clinic put together by organizers of The Match, aimed at celebrating the achievements of Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode in sports.