CALLS for the convocation of a Sovereign National Conference, SNC, re-echoed, yesterday, in Lagos as political leaders and other stakeholders spoke in its favour at a book launch cum discussion session.

FORMER Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Dr. Aliyu Modibbo thinks governors have become emperors because state houses of assembly were not strong enough to control them.

LAST week, I quoted a friend who thinks that seduction is a “coping” or survival strategy within certain contexts and is absolutely convinced that predatory women who set out to seduce influential men deserve sympathy rather than condemnation.

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.

THE Niger-Delta Peoples Conference (NPDC), a non-governmental organization, has given contractors who abandoned projects awarded to them by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) after collecting the total contract sums, seven days within which to refund the money or have their cases reported to the EFCC and ICPC.

It might, at times, be appropriate to question the rationale behind the great rush of some otherwise respected citizens into politics which is often described by many as a dirty game. It is puzzling to watch the number of candidates vying for elective political posts, whether that of President, State Governor or of Local Council or Chairman [often referred to as ‘The Chair‘].

Yet Mandela is simply a human being imbued with human frailties. His two marriages crashed before he found renewed love in the hands of Graca Machel, widow of the unforgetable African freedom fighter, Samora Machel. Quite humorous; when he knew his old age can no longer carry his punishing local and international schedules, he told the world: “Don’t call me, I’ll call you”.

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.

…Indicts vessel operators for false alarm on pirates attacks By Albert Akpor FOR the Nigeria Navy (NN), they are nothing but a bunch of impersonators masquerading as naval officers. And this is why it has sworn to deal with these self- acclaimed members of the merchant navy said to be led by one ‘Commodore’ Benson […]

We join millions of Nigerians in hailing your courageous and peace-encouraging decision to meet, last Saturday, with the MEND-appointed Aaron Team led by Admiral Okhai Mike Akhigbe, and comprising distinguished Nigerians like Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, retired military strategist, General Luke Kakadu Aprezi and Architect Denzil Amagbe Kentebe.

CRISIS is brewing in the two communities of Gbaregolor, Ewu Kingdom and Esanma, Ughelli South and Bomadi local government areas of Delta State over a piece of land.

Political heavy weights across the nation gathered in Benin City , Edo State capital last week Thursday, at the 1st anniversary celebration of Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s administration to stress the need for reforming the nation’s electoral process.

I want to start by congratulating the Nigeria Football Federation for Nigeria’s qualification for the 2010 World Cup, the first World Cup in Africa.

THE Federal Government has commenced payment of arrears of allowances owed former militants in various camps in the Niger Delta.

FOLLOWING the sudden death of the Chief Judge of Edo State, Justice Michael Edokpaiyi, last Tuesday, Governor Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday, appointed Justice Cromwell Idahosa as acting Chief Judge of the state.