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SHARE prices on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) fell to a two-year low yesterday following the revelation that President Muhammadu Buhari intends to re-appoint Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor Godwin Emefiele for another five year term.

FOUR prominent Islamic scholars have resigned from the government of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje in response to his recent decision to carve of the Kano emirate into four over his disagreements with Emir Lamido Sanusi.

By Ayo Akinfe 

(1) Next week, the PDP governors were shamelessly planning to hold a jamboree in Dubai. In what can only be described as total and spiteful disregard for the Nigerian hospitality industry, 15 of them were planning to go and hold a week-long “summit” in the United Arab Emirates, obviously at the expense of the Nigerian taxpayer 

PEOPLES Democratic Party (PDP) leaders have written to the president of the Court of Appeal Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa asking her to stand down from her role on the presidential elections tribunal because it represents a conflict of interest as her husband is a politician.

HUMAN rights lawyer Inibehe Effiong has dragged President Muhammadu Buhari to court for a breach of the constitution claiming he acted illegally by jetting out to London for 10 days last month without handing over to vice president Professor Yemi Osinbajo.

GOMBE State's Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo has his colleagues in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to shelve the idea of a lavish retreat in Dubai which they plan to hold later this month as the idea is insensitive.

PAN-cultural Igbo organisation Ohaneze Ndigbo has condemned a recent statement by President Muhammadu Buhari's spokesperson likening it to the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association of Nigeria (Macban) saying there is no basis for comparison.

FORMER vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has declared that he will accept the verdict of the Presidential Election Tribunal even if it rules that President Muhammadu Buhari was the winner of the elections he is challenging.

By Ayo Akinfe 

(1) This week, we have been inundated with news about how the Kano State governor Abdullahi Ganduje aka Gandollar has waged war on the Emir of Kano Sanusi Lamido. Gandollar is unhappy about how the emir was opposed to his re-election after the governor was video taped receiving bribes to collect government contracts, so had the monarch probed and now is creating four more emirs in Kano to reduce Sanusi’s influence 

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is to launch a campaign against open defecation known as Clean Nigeria Use Toilet in a bid to bring about an end to the practice of Nigerians relieving themselves in public by 2025.