Former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida have made a joint appeal for peace in the land, saying that the daily loss of innocent lives in the country was an unbearable burden that could inevitably shatter the fabrics of the nation’s existence.

Some insight into how new states will be created was given yesterday when the Deputy President of the Senate and Chairman of the upper chambre’s Constitutional Review Committees, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, said it would be by consensus.

The law bared its fangs, yesterday, as the Ikeja and Lagos judicial divisions will try 7 oil companies and 12 directors charged before them. They face between 7 years and 20 years imprisonment and to refund N304bn which was alleged to have been illegally taken from the Federal Government coffers.

Tragedy struck in Jos, Plateau State capital, Sunday night, when a rampaging flood swallowed over 35 people and also destroyed more than 200 houses. A 90-year-old woman and a three-month-old baby were among the victims while more than 15 people have also been declared missing.

The intervention of the President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, notwithstanding, the House of Representatives will commence impeachment proceedings against President Goodluck Jonathan this September in the event he continues to err in the implementation of the 2012 budget.

Five days after a bomb making factory was uncovered in Kogi State, gunmen, believed to be robbers, struck in the state, at the weekend, attacking a police station and looting a bank.

The size and responsibilities of the Federal government came under attack yesterday just as the Senate at the commencement of a strategic retreat on the review of the Constitution put devolution of powers from the federal level at the top of its agenda.

The House of Representatives, yesterday, threatened to invoke articles of impeachment against President Goodluck Jonathan if by September the Minister of Finance does not release funds for MDAs.

Tempers flared among some members of the House of Representatives, yesterday, following the recall of Ms Aruma Oteh by the Presidency as the Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, in contravention of a House report recommending her dismissal.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, cried out over what he described as the lynch-mob mentality of the political opposition, who he claimed, was determined to drown him and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, out of political relevance.

The Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company, SNEPCO, has been fined $5billion over the massive oil spill that occurred at its Bonga oil field on December 20, 2011.

Amid initial hitches, enthusiastic voters yesterday trooped out to cast their votes in the Edo State governorship election.

Early results from some polling units in Edo Central and Edo South Senatorial Districts appeared to favour Oshomhole of the ACN.

OVER 100 persons, including pregnant women, youths and children perished, yesterday, on the East-West Road, at Okogbe community in Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State, when a petrol tanker from which they were scooping fuel exploded with the content.

THERE was chaos in the House of Representatives, yesterday, as rival party members took strongly partisan positions over the deployment of troops ahead of the Edo State gubernatorial election.

The police authorities, yesterday, disputed claims by Islamic sect, Boko Haram which claimed responsibility for weekend’s massacre in some villages in Plateau State. More than 86 people including two lawmakers were killed in the mayhem, even as there were fresh attacks on two villages yesterday.