THESE election series deal with eight issues two of which have already been addressed. Issue No.3 is how to constitutionalise and democratise election party competition over control of government.

CRISIS in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, widens everyday as the National Leadership of the Party yesterday described former Senate Presidents, Ken Nnamani, Adolphus Wabara, Ex-Speaker, Bello Masari, the immediate past National Secretary of the party, Bernard Eze and other members of the PDP Reform Forum as rebels.

HER pretty face gives no indication of her predicament. At a glance, cute, cheerful and cuddly Oluchi Ukaegbu, 6, is any parent’s desire, but on closer encounter, a shocking discovery awaits the unwary.

”Africa’s survival into the next century is fraught with dangers. The mother continent seems to be the only region resisting inter-ethnic identity.

By Ndahi Marama  MAIDUGURI — minister of Works, Alhaji Mohammed Sanusi Daggash, has expressed Federal Government’s determination to rehabilitate all federal roads across the country. The minister made this known to newsmen when he paid a courtesy call on Governor Ali Sheriff at the Government House, Maiduguri in continuation of his nationwide inspection of federal […]

By Bashir Adefaka LAGOS—The Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has been reminded of the effect of putting the cart before the horse in the present effort toward solving the dragging power problem facing the country, presently. Former Press Secretary to the Head of State during General Olusegun Obasanjo military regime, Igwe Ezeoba Nwokedi made the […]

By Vincent Ujumadu  AWKA—FORMER Governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, whose wife, Onyedi, was kidnapped last week has said that the kidnappers were demanding ransom he could not afford. He, however, didn’t disclose the amount demanded by the kidnappers. The kidnappers who abducted Mrs. Onyedi Ezeife, one of the wives of first civilian Governor […]

By Ben Agande  ABUJA—Members of the National Assembly from Abia State under the aegis of  the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, caucus have petitioned the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,  over what they described as ‘obvious anomaly in the voters’ register’. They have also called for the immediate correction of the anomaly in order not to […]

 By Emeka Mamah  Kaduna — Minister of the Interior, Captain Emmanuel Iheanocho, said the congestion in the nation’s prisons had become worrisome to the Federal Government. He spoke in Kaduna yesterday when he paid a courtesy visit on Governor Namadi Sambo of Kaduna State at the Government House, after inspection of facilities at the Kaduna […]

…stops it from taking decision on 19 suspended members  By Ise-Oluwa Ige & Ikechukwu Nnochiri  ABUJA—An Abuja high court sitting at Gudu yesterday issued an interim order stopping the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from holding its National Executive Committee meeting indefinitely. The party’s National Executive Committee is scheduled to meet today in Abuja but […]