LAST weekend saw a harvest of deaths in different parts of the country with the highest toll coming from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital where the deadly Boko Haram sect continued its reign of terror. This time a gun fight between members of the sect and Joint Task Force, JTF, left at least 41 people dead.

Sunday’s heavy rainfall, which crippled Lagos State, has forced Governor Babatunde Fashola to declare a public holiday for all public and private schools in the state.

The controversy over the removal of subsidy on petrol, the push for an enhanced revenue sharing formula in favour of the states and the issue of obeying the Minimum Wage Act signed into law this year may be threatening to tear apart the perceived unity in the Governors’ Forum.

MANAGING Director at the World Bank and former Finance and Foreign Affairs Minister under former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said, yesterday, she has been receiving threat calls from corrupt politicians and business elite not to return home for ministerial appointment.

CRIES of agony, desperation and helplessness, yesterday, echoed from the debris of the four-storey building that collapsed at 4, Mogaji Lane in Ebute Ero area of Idumota, Lagos Island as trapped victims tried to reach out to their relations on the other side of the collapsed building.