THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has thrown its weight behind the House of Representatives in its current face-off with the Senate over which chamber should host the President for the 2010 budget presentation.

WORRIED by the high rate of violence associated with general election, Delta State Commissioner of Police, Mr Yakubu Alkali, has sought for extra arms and ammuni-tion to meet up with the challenges as the 2011 general election draw nearer.

The war of supremacy between the Senate and the House of Representatives became an issue again yesterday, threatening today’s presentation of the 2010 federal budget by President Umaru Yar’Adua.

LAGOS — Transparency International yesterday ranked Nigeria 130th out of 180 countries surveyed in the 2009 corruption perception index.

LONG fuel queues have hit Lagos State and other major cities across the country, as the problem of logistics hinders efforts by the Pipeline Products and Marketing Company, PPMC, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to discharge products from its imported cargoes for distribution to marketers.

NIGERIA Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, has said that as at the end of 2008, the Financial condition of banks in the country were generally satisfactory.

President Umaru Yar’Adua overruled, yesterday, his defence minister, Major General Godwin Abbe and dialogued with the Aaron team which was set up two months ago by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) on the way out of the crisis in the region.

Now, which PDP state is performing in Nigeria . What can you copy from any of them? But, look at the only state that Action Congress is controlling. That is the only state performing.

CNPP National Chairman, Maxi Okwu has commended yesterday’s dismissal of Chief Andy Uba’s case by the Court of Appeal, saying “it is in tune with the wishes of the people of Anambra.The judgment should be appreciated by all true democrats in Nigeria in the interest of politics and peace in Anambra,” Okwu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.

BRAZIL have won the FIFA World Cup a record five times and the Under-20 World Cup four times, only second to Argentina who are six time winners. Nigeria tie with Brazil for the U-17 diadem, having won it three times.
But when the final of the 13th edition holds in Abuja on Sunday, Nigeria will be attempting to surpass Brazil in this category of youth competition.