ABUJA — APPARENTLY disturbed by the dimension the padding allegations surrounding the 2016 budget has taken, the All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday barred Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; former chairman of Appropriation Committee, Abdulmunin Jibrin, and other lawmakers from talking to the press on the issue.

ABUJA— Former President Goodluck Jonathan, Wednesday, called on the warring members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to sheathe their swords and allow the party to pick up its bits and pieces.

PROMINENT Igbo leader and member of Board of Trustees of the opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, has described the attempt to remove Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu as the governor of Abia State following the order of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja as treasonable.

PORT HARCOURT— Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth of Nigeria has called on the Federal Government not to include Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, in any body constituted to oversee the clean up exercise in Ogoni, Rivers State.

WARRI—THE nomination of Urhobo-born Engr. Samuel Adjogbe as Executive Director Projects, Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has been described as the best thing to happen in Delta State, given his expertise.