PRESIDENTIAL candidate of the National Conscience Party, NCP, Bashorun Dele Momodu during a visit to Vanguard Newspapers’ Corporate Headquarters bared his mind on why his aspiration should not be taken for granted. He also spoke on his plans for the country, if elected and why power should return to men of the Fourth Estate, who fought for and won Independence for the country. Excerpts:

Never before has the otherwise once politically cohesive North been pushed to the wall as it is now. Even more vexatious for some is that the source of the disharmony raging in the North today is the smiling innocent looking and seemingly harmless ‘political neophyte,’ Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.

CHIEF Paulinus Akpeki, is the Delta State Commissioner for Communications and Public Orientation. In an interview with Vanguard he articulated the agenda of the Emmanuel Uduaghan administration in the months ahead and raised the question on the tenure of the governor following the January re-run election. Excerpts.

Members of House of Representatives were furious yesterday over the National Sports Commission’s inability to account for money allegedly disbursed to the Commission for capital projects, but there was no sign those projects were executed.

FAO’s prediction that Nigeria, Morocco and Bangladesh face imminent food crisis has attracted divergent reactions from stakeholders in the nation’s agricultural sector. The report, posted on the UN agency’s website, stated that the world food situation was in dire straits.