More than  120 front-line Anti-corruption Civil Society Organisations, on Friday, held a massive town hall meeting, in Lagos, to round off their week-long protest against what they called “Politicisation of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Disobedience of Court Orders and Infringement on Human Rights of Nigerians” under the leadership of Abdulrasheed Bawa.

On April 10, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Afenifere leader, lawyer, politician and activist will be 95 years. Not many of his colleagues are still around as he would readily remind you.

HAD the three legs of the power triangle, brand them godfathers of Delta State politics –  the Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa; ex-governors, Chief James Ibori, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, harmoniously resolved on a consensus Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate for the March 11 governorship polls , no other political force in the state could have fruitfully dared them.

The Presidency on Friday said that it is only politicians who are afraid of losing elections that are accusing President Muhammadu Buhari of planning to truncate the democracy and handover to an interim government.

Violent protests resurfaced in major cities in the southern part of the country yesterday over the scarcity of the new naira notes arising from the redesign of the N200, N500 and N1000 notes by the Federal Government.