AHEAD the 2011 general elections, the Edo State chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Dan Orbih, has warned aspirants seeking political positions on the platform of the party, including the House of Representatives leader, Col. Tunde Akogun, Senators Yisa Braimoh and Odion Ugbesia to stop giving the impression that they had been endorsed by the former chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih.

STUDENTS of Anambra State University whose teachers have been on strike since July 22, 2010, have sent a Save Our Soul, SOS, to well- meaning Nigerians to plead with the lecturers to return to work to save their careers.

THE Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, the political party likely to field General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) as its presidential candidate in next year’s election, has said the North would not decide for the party how it would go about the election.

THE European Union Increasing Non-State Actors’ Implementation and Development Expertise, EU-INSIDE, has said it will collaborate with non governmental organisations in the country for the sustenance of democracy in Nigeria.

As the clamour for the release of late General Sani Abacha’s former Chief Security Officer, Hamza Al Mustapha, gains prominence in some quarters, Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on FCT, Senator Anthony Agbo, has thrown his weight behind the call, appealing to President Goodluck Jonathan to tamper justice with mercy.

State Acting Governor Prince Sam Obi, yesterday, denied hatching any plan to dissolve the state executive of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, led by Chief Peter Nwaoboshi, saying that he does not even have the power to do so.

President Goodluck Jonathan has described his late Senior Special Assistant on Political Matters, Senator Polycarp Nwite, who was buried last weekend amidst tears, as a man who exhibited the will and courage to face life, no matter the challenges before him.

Governor Gabriel Suswam has lamented that sectionalism and tribalism had been the bane of the nation’s democratic growth, advising that Nigerians should discard such primordial sentiments when choosing their leaders in 2011 in the interest of the nation’s socio-economic growth and development.

People who donate blood are actually the beneficiaries of that gesture, Dr. Sunday Bolorunduro, the North-Central Zonal Coordinator of the National Blood Transfusion Service, has said.