Speaker of Benue State House of Assembly, Mr. Terkimbi Ikyange, has said he would not be forced out of office by agitations for the restoration of Mbagwa State constituency in Ushongo Local Government Area of the state.

ARGUABLY, Legal luminary, elder statesman, and chairman of The Patriots, Professor Ben Nwabueze, SAN, 85, is the oldest senior advocate in the country. Of the 13 SANs crowned in 1978, he is one of the two still alive. The other is Chief Richard Akinjide, SAN, who Nwabueze claims is younger than him. Both are 85, but while Nwabueze was born in March, Akinjide was born in November.

THE APC in Ondo State weekend set up a committee to interface with the Governorship candidate of the party; Mr. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu SAN on the methods to be used for the appointment into political offices should the party win the November 26 governorship election in the State.

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ondo State has petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari, the National Judicial Council (NJC) and the Attorney -General of the Federation over what it described as the unethical conduct and conspiracy to allegedly subvert the cause of justice in the suit bothering on the PDP candidature in the November 26 governorship election.

Rivers state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has called on the Minister of Transportation, Mr Chibuike Amaechi to resign his position, saying he had no moral basis to remain in office after the allegations of bribery leveled against him by two judges.

The Factional candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the November 20 Ondo State governorship election, Jimoh Ibrahim, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission of trying exclude him from the election by not accepting his papers as the authentic candidate of the PDP.

In attempting to cut Tinubu to size, President Muhammadu Buhari was, sometime in June, reported to have laid the issue of “National Leader” of the party to rest

The Chairman of Northern States Governors’ Forum, Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State, speaks on the mission of 10 northern governors to Washington, United States (US), last week. The nine other governors who attended a three-day symposium for the northern states’ chief helmsmen organised by the United States Institute of Peace include the governors of Plateau, Sokoto, Taraba, Zamfara, Adamawa, Bauchi, Kwara and Niger. The governor of Kano State was represented by his deputy.

THE outcome of two online opinion polls commissioned by Saturday Vanguard to feel the pulse of Nigerians regarding increasing calls on President Muhammadu Buhari to rijig his ministers revealed that many believed that an urgent reorganisation of the President’s cabinet would be key to resolving the perception of inactivity about the Buhari administration.

Some Nigerians who stayed up early on Thursday morning to watch the feisty debate between Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton would have been amazed at the fury the two presidential candidates engaged themselves over nominations to the Supreme Court.