CHAIRMAN of Warri South local government council, Mr. Mofe Edema, has commissioned solar-powered street lights and water projects scattered in over 14 wards in the area.

Groups in the Niger Delta have threatened an end to the Nigerian state should Vice-President Good luck Jonathan be forced to resign from office over reasons that could best be described as sectional and parochial.

DELTA State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has said for Nigeria to be taken seriously in the comity of nations, it must ensure that the 2011 elections and other subsequent elections in the country remained transpa-rent.

A legal practitioner, Mr Jesutega Onokpasa, has charged the Niger Delta Ministry to spearhead the development of the region in concert with state and local government authorities in the area.

THE hiccups which characterised the execution of some capital projects by the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs has been blamed on the activities of members of the House of Representatives Committee on Niger Delta, who erroneously inserted their constituency projects in the 2009 budget in place of popular projects outlined for execution by the stakeholders in the region.

SPORTS Minister, Sani Ndanusa, was without boxing gloves but he delivered a sucker punch when he described NOC President Habu Gumel as a landmine that needs to be uprooted for true Olympic spirit to reign in Nigerian sports.

THE President of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) workers, Comrade Peter Akpatason, has called on the Federal Government to approach the controversial deregulation of the petroleum industry with caution.

Foreign exchange supply from autonomous sources most oil firms precipitated a 73 per cent fall in demand at the official market last week.

We have never really lacked men, but more often than not, we have suffered a system that throws up not our best for positions that only our best should occupy. At independence we had the articulate and eloquent Nnamdi Azikiwe, the visionary Obafemi Awolowo, the imperial Ahmadu Bello leading the charge.

President Yar’Adua, on Tuesday 24/11/2009, by proxy, laid before the Legislature the 2010 National appropriation Bill. In view of the results and products of our national budgetS over the years, it has become patently obvious to even a blind man that in spite of abundant resources at government’s disposal, the annual budget rituals of the three tiers of government have had little or no positive impact on the welfare of majority of our people.