National leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said yesterday that former President Olusegun Obasanjo did not speak on Thursday in his capacity as Chairman, board of Trustees(BoT) of the party but as a Nigerian.

WHEREAS most families in Lagos are still full of thanks to the Almighty God for surviving year 2009, some who though sailed through the year also, are already mourning reports Albert Akpor and Ifeanyin Okolie

If events in the last seven days around Aso Rock, Nigeria’s seat of power, are anything to go by then one may be right to say that political warring factions in the corridors of power may have laid down their political arms, as unrepentant loyal incumbent Vice President Goodluck Jonathan becomes more assertive in the performance of the functions of Nigeria’s number one citizen on behalf of his boss, President Umaru Yar’Adua.

It’s the beginning of 2010 and it is really important to set aside a moment of true reflection. You cannot decide on where you are going if you are ignorant of where you are coming from. This is the time to look back at 2009 and determine what needs to stay in your life and what needs to go.

I must confess that we are no longer making much money as we used to make in the recent past, simply because the producers are no longer making much money as they used to make. Definitely, it’s affecting whatever they are paying to the artistes.

ANGRY reactions have trailed former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s suggestion that ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua should follow the path of honour by resigning, if his health will not allow him to perform the duties of his office.

Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South AT the moment, the Northwest geopolitical zone is the ruling power bloc in the country with bedridden President Umaru Yar’Adua, his wife Mrs. Turai Yar’Adua and members of his kitchen cabinet, principally from Katsina state as the power brokers.

*At what point does one arrest the national scene that seems to be moving on the wings of a typhoon, when mayhem has erupted once again in a section of the country not unknown to widespread violence, at a time when the not unusual comprehensive shortage of fuel supply has all but prostrated the country, […]

It is against this backdrop that we approach the coming election of February to determine who takes charge of governance in the state. It isn’t because a civilised political atmosphere prevails in Anambra that most people are standing on edge over the possible outcome of the polls. On the contrary, every one is scared that there is cause for concern because of the violence which is daily escalating in the state.

FORMER Abia State governor, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu has disclosed how former President Olusegun Obasanjo deliberately brought Yar’Adua because he though that he (Yar’Adua), would die during campaign so that he (Obasanjo) will continue in office.