The House of Representatives Tuesday voted out a motion seeking to condemn recent utterances in the mass media attributed to the Minister of Information and Communication, Prof, Dora Akunyili, to mean that the Green Chamber saw nothing wrong with her condemnation of a cabal, which she had kept saying, was lying about the health of President Umaru Yar’Adua.

CLEAR indications that the leadership and governors elected under the umbrella of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, have given up on the Yar’Adua Presidency, emerged yesterday as the leadership of the party announced that the North would produce the next president of the country in 2011.

The job of the National Assembly appears to leave the Constitution and instead ignite a debate over the true meaning of handover, stoke it as we shout and protest in our various trademark fashions, and maintain the tempo for as long as it takes the President to return to his seat.

IF you are a fervent follower of events in Edo State House of Assembly, you would think the legislators were being paid to exhibit their stale boxing skills. Last week, the hospitals in Benin City were busy receiving victims of the most recent flurry of punches unleashed in a gathering that is supposed to make laws for the good governance of the State.

PRESIDENT Umaru Yar’Adua after a 93-day absence was brought commando style into the country last Wednesday under the cover of darkness. The Commander-in-Chief tactically evaded the six-man Federal Government delegation sent to his erstwhile Saudi Arabia base; as the delegation arrived, he took off for Nigeria. The hapless delegation was forced to return home in pursuit of their sick leader.

I GET on very well with my current boyfriend. In spite of the fact he’s always been honest, he’s an atheist. My family is catholic and they have invited us over on any weekend we choose. This will be the perfect opportunity for him to meet them as long as we don’t all drag him to church on Sunday. He says he doesn’t want to compromise his principles. But surely, he can stand the few hours we’ll be in church for my sake?

ON a compassionate ground and sympathy for the first family, the Governors of the 36 states of the federation last night rose in strong defence against any impeachment move against ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua, insisting also that his resignation is not an option.

For the Chief Executive Officer of Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation CTO, Dr Ekwow-Spio Garbrah, a major challenge facing the development of ICT in the commonwealth is that despite major advances, well over 70 percent of Commonwealth developing countries, especially the rural communities were still not connected to the information super-highway.. Garbrah said this situation has cut the developing nations out of the major chunk of world communications and global market benefits.

The Director General of the National University Commission, Professor Julius Okogie has said that only massive investment by the country in science and technology will guarantee the realization of Vision 20-2020.

The very positive stride recorded in the global development of Information Communications Technology has made human existence easier than could have been imagined. The developed countries of Europe and America have taken advantage of the numerous benefits of ICT to appreciably enhance their developmental profile particularly in the areas of human capacity building, knowledge acquisition and the creation of innumerable opportunities for the individual to optimize his potentials.