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The Nation -President Muhamadu Buhari has approved a tendering process for the 2015/2016 Crude Oil Term Contract and the evacuation of Nigeria’s crude oil equity from the various crude and condensate production arrangements. The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), which announced the presidential approval, said it will begin with the advertisement of the Crude Oil Term contract in both National and International print media for one month. The new arrangement has been “carefully structured to weed out briefcase companies and rent seekers,” a statement by the Corporation last night said.

The Nation -Former Lagos State Governor Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has condemned the attacks on his successor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola. He remains proud of Fashola and will never be part of any part of any process to bring him down, he said yesterday. Tinubu, in a statement by his media office yesterday, said Fashola would be victorious in the end. He said the immediate past governor contributed immensely to the development of Lagos. The statement reads: “The past elections were an epic confrontation between two opposing political camps. Those who believed in the progressive governance of the people gathered under the banner of the APC. Those who hearkened to the conservative elitism that had cast this nation downward for so many years.

"Obviously, the continued decline in the oil revenue will make the current government to diversify the economy and make it buoyant," Yusuf said. Pulse -An economist, Mr Tosin Yusuf , on Monday said diversification was the only way to get out of the current economic problem in Nigeria . Yusuf told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Osogbo that the economic situation of the country required diversification of the monoculture oil economy.

The Nation -The Publicity Secretary of the People Democratic Party in Osun State, Alhaji Bola Ajao, in this interview with Adesoji Adeniyi, speaks about the petition written by Justice Folaranmi Oloyede calling for the impeachment of Governor Rauf Aregbesola.  The All Progressives Congress is accusing the Peoples Democratic Party of raising false alarm on the financial situation of the state? Is it false alarm that workers in the service of Osun State government are being owed unprecedented eight months salaries? Is it false alarm that many grandiose projects in the state are in the state of abandonment? And the reason is not far from financial insolvency. Is it false alarm that Osun State government under the watch of Ogbeni Aregbesola cannot meet sundry financial obligations? It is sad that our school system has gone comatose as school children could not write first, second and third term as well as their annual promotion examinations.

Daily Times -The Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State (CSCEO), has described the National Judicial Commission (NJC) involvement in the marital matter of Justice Folahanmi Oloyede as unfortunate and shocking. It would be recalled that Mrs. Emily Richard-Obire had sent a petition to NJC, claiming that Justice Oloyede snatched her husband.

Daily Post -The Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State (CSCEO) has chided the National Judicial Commission (NJC) for meddling in Justice Folahanmi Oloyede’s marital squabbles. The group expressed shock that the chairman of the commission, Chief Justice of the Federation (CJN), Mahmud Mohammed, gave attention to a petition sent to the NJC by one Mrs. Emily Richard-Obire claiming that Oloyede snatched her husband. CSCEO in a statement in Osogbo, Osun State, signed by its chairman and its director of mobilisation, Comrade Adeniyi Sulaiman and Rev. Theophilus Ayodeji respectively, accused the CJN and the NJC of dancing to the tune of politicians.

Premium Time -The Osun State Government has said that it will not interfere in the selection process of the next Ooni of Ife in the face of rising controversies over who ascends the throne. The Adetipe family within the Ogboru ruling house, which is contending for the stool, had on Monday called on the Osun State Government to assist the traditional institution in the state to ensure that the right person and ruling house produced the 51st Ooni of Ife. The call stemmed from a brewing controversy on whose turn it is to produce a nominee for the Ooni stool.