The war of words be-tween President Goodluck Jonathan and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar over the authorship of a rigging roadmap for the 2011 presidential primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, continued at the weekend, with Atiku’s campaign group blaming leakages in Jonathan’s campaign for the revelation.

Details have emerged on how 75 senators on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were persuaded to endorse President Goodluck Jonathan as the candidate of the party for the 2011 presidential election.

Indications emerged weekend that airlines have not been able to access the N500 billion bailout to some sectors of the economy, including aviation, due to the tussle among the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Aviation Ministry and Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, over who should disburse the money.

BANKERS in the country, weekend, said there was no justification for the nation’s external reserve to plummet from US$62 billion in 2008 to the presentUS$34 billion at present, warning that the trend portended great danger for the economy.

NO fewer than 35,000 youths of Abeokuta South Federal Constituency, Ogun state, in what looked like a carnival yesterday met at Centenary Hall, Ake, Abeokuta, and formally endorsed the Speaker of House of Representatives, Rt.Hon. Dimeji Bankole for another term as their representative in the House of Representatives.

Mrs Sylvia Sinaba, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, would have been alive, if managers of the Oniru private beach, Lagos, had done what they were supposed to do, which is to provide enough divers at the beach and station a trained auxillary nurse at the waterside.

AS the strike embarked upon by the Association of Medical and Dental Officers, AMDO, Oyo State branch, enters day 7, a chieftain of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Chief Olufemi Lanlehin, has said the strike could have been prevented if the ruling PDP had visionary leaders.

The capital market was characterised by a very slow gruesome recovery of the Nigerian Stock Exchange even as a monumental leadership crisis bedevilled the Exchange through the year.