THERE was bloodbath in Badagry, Lagos, yesterday, after a group of heavily armed soldiers from the 242 Recce Battalion, Ibereko, Badagry, took over strategic locations in the ancient town maiming and killing any policeman in sight.

LEADERS of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday in Abuja, said they had uncover plot by unwilling governors to scuttle the implementation of the N18,000 new minimum wage, even as they asked such governors to quit instead of disobeying the law of the land.

President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, urged the presidential election petition tribunal sitting in Abuja, to compel the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, to furnish them with specific particulars of the alleged electoral malpractices that it said culminated to the failure of its candidate, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, in the April 16 presidential election.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, warned members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to abide by decisions of the party in the zoning arrangement approved and rolled out last week.

IF feelers from the Presidency, weekend, are anything to go by, President Goodluck Jonathan may not rely on the list of 10 names each sent from the states in appointing members of his new cabinet.

AS part of his four-year term agenda towards growing the economy through oil sector, President Goodluck Jonathan has directed the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to as a matter of national priority carry out a comprehensive rehabilitation of the three refineries within the next 24 months.

Even before the inauguration on Sunday May 29, 2011, the zoning palaver in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, specifically the speakership which has been zoned to the least supportive South West geo-political zone, is turning out to be a very tricky but dangerous political game. What are the tricks and the dangers?

Reminiscent of a classical no retreat, no surrender scenario, the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, has formally written to the United Nations (UN) and the European Union (EU) through their respective election monitoring groups, condemning the conduct and outcome of the just concluded 2011 general elections in the country.

The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, on Saturday urged Nigerians to cultivate the habit of showing love to one another.

AGAINST the backdrop of report that a governor-elect had directed banks to freeze the accounts of the state government pending the May 29 handover date, President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday charged the governors-elect not to stampede the out-going governors out of office by their conduct as they remain in power until they hand over.