Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State says he believes in the state Independent Electoral Commission, CROSIEC, to conduct a free and fair election in the state.

BUT somehow, after the victory, the people you vanquished, the opponents we demolished, whom we conquered and who should be, ideally, our booty have today found a life-wire whereby they make so much noise to the point that, apparently, we, the PDP, we who won the elections, who should be defending the interests of the PDP, defending our victory and our fortunes have been blackmailed into silence.

AN Abuja High Court, sitting in Maitama, yesterday, gave the Federal Government, suo motu, the green light to apply for a warrant to arrest the incumbent Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor and five others, for trial over alleged illegal diversion of N2.3billion belonging to the Federal Government.

MALARIA is still the biggest killer of Nigerian children under five years of age as hopes of its eradication remain as elusive as ever, even as year 2010 has been marked as the pivotal year in the campaign to attain the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target in Nigeria and other endemic countries.

ALL is not well with the Nigerian health industry. No one knows this better than the average Nigerian. Indeed the centre no longer holds for the nation’s drug industry and things almost falling apart completely.