Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal. The gist of the rumor is that an Alaska building company called Spenard Building Supplies (SBS) was awarded a contract by Palin to build a hockey arena in Wasilla, AK, and in return, SBS helped construct Palin’s home:

Many political observers in Alaska are fixated on rumors that federal investigators have been seizing paperwork from SBS in recent months, searching for evidence that Palin and her husband Todd steered lucrative contracts to the well-connected company in exchange for gifts like the construction of their home on pristine Lake Lucille in 2002. The home was built just two months before Palin began campaigning for governor, a job which would have provided her enhanced power to grant building contracts in the wide open state.

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Desert Herald and its publisher, Mallam Tukur Mamu, have been receiving several threats from officials of the Kano State government since the cover story on the assassination of Sheikh Ja'afar Mahmud Adam and the inability of the authorities to unravel his killers two years after. Although investigation by Desert Herald reveals that Governor Ibrahim Shekarau is reluctant about the idea of raiding Desert Herald, some officials of the government in an attempt to demonstrate loyalty to the governor, have intensified plot against Desert Herald and its publisher, Mallam Tukur Mamu.
At the centre of the plot against Desert Herald and its publisher, according to a reliable source that pleaded anonymity, is the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Abdulkarim Hassan, the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Barrister Aliyu Umar, the Special Adviser on Security Matters, Major Garko and the Head of Service, Alhaji Rabi'u Zakariya.

Honourable Wale Alausa, representing Ijebu-Ode Constituency in the Ogun State House of Assembly, has said that Governor Gbenga Daniel forced him to take an oath in 2007 contrary to the report in the Nigerian Compass this morning.
Reacting to the story, “Ogun 15 lawmakers on blood oath,” Hon. Alausa said it was a fabrication aimed at ridiculing his person and his colleagues in the house by Daniel and his agents.

Sir: Threat to my life, plot to invade my office and residence and plan to use the court and security agencies to implicate and persecute me by the Kano state government.

A Lagos High court was on Wednesday informed that the board of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) under its former Chairman, Chief Olabode George approved  75 percent mobilization fees for contractors as against the 25 percent approved in the 2001 Federal Government circular.