The Federal Government has been urged to release money owed the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to enable it discharge its responsibilities effectively in the region. Making the appeal in Port Harcourt , Chairman, Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, South-South and South-East chapters, Alhaji Musa Saidu, said there was need to encourage the Commission financially so that it would contribute meaningfully towards addressing the challenges of underdevelopment and poverty in the region.

THERE were indications, yesterday, that the National Chairman of the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor and other members of the National Working Committee were yet to see ailing President Umaru Yar’adua, six days after they left the country for Saudi Arabia.

THE election to choose the nation’s next President is to be held as early as November this year, under proposals separately articulated by the Senate and House of Representatives committees on the review of the constitution.

IT was many hours after the actual event, precisely at the very hours the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria broadcasts its flagship news at 7 in the morning, that I would hear the maiden broadcast of Goodluck Jonathan, the Acting President.

CHIEF Michael Kaase Aondoakaa, former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation would require sometime to comprehend his descent from the summit of his political sphere to a tiny place where he is meant to be forgotten quickly.