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.