The battle for Alagbaka Government House, Akure, intensified yesterday, after President Muhammadu Buhari stormed the Ondo State capital to campaign for the candidate of his party, All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Rotimi Akeredolu, in Saturday’s governorship election in the state.

Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, yesterday, took a swipe at Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, over the former’s declaration that he (Saraki) was being blackmailed by President Muhammadu Buhari on the proposed $29.9 billion external loan.

THE All Progressives Congress, APC, caucus in the House of Representatives, yesterday, expressed disenchantment with the ruling party by opposing passage of the Medium Term Expenditure Framework, MTEF, virement of N180 billion for critical infrastructure and the foreign loan request of $29.9 billion from President Muhammadu Buhari, during their caucus meeting, last night.

A bloody clash between the police and members of Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, popularly known in local parlance as Shi’ites, on the outskirts of Kano metropolis, yesterday morning, claimed the life of a police sergeant and 19 members of the sect.

The Federal Government’s draft National Oil Policy has proposed to consolidate Nigeria’s oil industry regulatory authorities into a single agency to be known as Petroleum Regulatory Commission, PRC, while scrapping all other regulators, including the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, and Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, among others.

SOLDIERS, again, yesterday stormed four Ijaw communities in the Niger Delta: Oporoza, Okerenkoko, Nekeama and Tebujor, also known as Okpele-ama in Gbaramatu Kingdom, in Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, with gunboats, in search of suspected militants.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State is leaving office today, Saturday November 12, 2016, but his legacies will remain for many years to come. Upon arriving the state as governor in 2007, the former President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), embarked on massive developmental projects across the state. There is no doubt that the former labour leader is quite satisfied with his achievements but the spirit of his late wife, Clara and that of his Principal Private Secretary, Olaitan Oyerinde resurrected last Wednesday during his valedictory Exco meeting.

President Muhammadu Buhari has sworn in Walter Samuel Onnoghen from Cross River State, as Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN.

RETIRED Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, yesterday, said the Nigerian Judiciary “withstood immense pressure” in order to guarantee the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015.

THE election of Mr. Donald Trump of the Republican Party as the 45th President of the United States of America, yesterday, provoked an avalanche of questions from local and foreign experts.

President Muhammadu Buhari has tasked security agencies to ensure peaceful elections, warning it might be difficult to conduct the 2019 general elections across the country, if conduct of hitch-free elections in one state is difficult to achieve.

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, revealed, yesterday, that the National Judicial Commission, NJC, asked judges facing allegations of corruption to step down because it was confronted with proof of evidence against some of them.

The Federal Government, weekend, said it would undertake a review of the pricing template for Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol, to forestall a further increase in the price of the commodity.

There was tension in Niger Delta, yesterday, as soldiers allegedly raided an Ijaw community, four days after President Muhammadu Buhari met with Niger Delta leaders in Abuja as part of the efforts to resolve issues that led to renewed militancy in the oil-rich region.

Troops of 121 Battalion, Nigerian Army, deployed at Pulka, Gwoza Local Government Area, Borno, for Operation Lafiya Dole, yesterday, rescued one of the kidnapped Chibok girls.