Indications that President Goodluck Jonathan might contest the 2011 presidential election emerged, yesterday, as elder statesman and founding member of the People’s Domcratic Party, PDP, Prince Emma Anyanwu, has said the Yar’Adua/Jonathan joint ticket remains valid till 2015.

FORMER Minister in Charge of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai and two key officials of the Abuja Geographic Information System, AGIS, were arraigned, yesterday, before a Federal High Court in Maitama over alleged abuse of office and corruption.

It all started shortly after we began taking his course. He would go on and on about our dressing, picking some of us out of the crowd. I was his first casualty, nothing I did seems to please him. One day he told me to see him after the end of the lecture in his office. He said he wanted to ask me a few things and advise me on how to go about life. It was a big lie.

The new Acting Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prince Solomon Adedeji, who resumed office, yesterday, promised that his leadership would focus on what he called ”the purification of the voters’ register’ to ensure a credible election in 2011.

The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Malam Lamido Sanusi, has blamed the slow rate of economic growth on the fraudulent activities and sharp practices being perpetrated by the management of some banks and other financial services providers.