RCC staff’s abduction stalls work on Lagos-Benin highway
THE House of Representatives, weekend, lamented that the recent abduction of two Lebanese staff of the Reynolds Construction Company, RCC, has stalled on-going construction work at the Benin-Lagos Expressway.
Atiku has emerged; to what purpose?
Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President, has emerged the consensus candidate for the Arewa people. He will contest against the official candidate of the PDP, Goodluck Jonathan.
I won’t join issues with Obasanjo – IBB
FORMER Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd) said, weekend, that he was not prepared to join issues with Chief Olusegun Obasanjo because the former President was his senior in the military.
These killings in Imo
In the last two months, there has been a spike in brutal killings of individuals in Imo state. These deaths have been unmistakable contract killings. The manner of execution seems clearly clinical, unambiguous, calculated to create fear and exact maximum symbolic threat.
THE QUEST FOR PDP PRESIDENTIAL TICKET: In the throes of renewed confrontation
This is a report of how, expectedly, the announcement of the consensus candidate of the Northern Political Leaders’ Forum, NPLF, is reshaping the contest for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential contest.
Ex-militants adopt Jonathan for 2011 poll
AGGRIEVED ex-militants in the Niger-Delta who recently returned to the creeks, over their dissatisfaction with the post-amnesty programme, yesterday, dismissed the widely held notion that they would work against President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2011 presidential poll, saying, he (Jonathan) is their candidate.
