The zoning was not restricted only to the office of the President as it has to stretch to the office of the Senate President, Deputy Senate President, the Speaker and Deputy Speakers, the Chairmanship of the party and other positions within the party.

The governor’s plan is to ensure that by the end of his first term in office all the communities in Akwa Ibom will have the benefit of electrification. The strategy we adopt is different. When we intervene in any local government, it is 100% coverage and no village or community is left out.

I am worried that growth of football will be the only victim. Finally, has President Goodluck entered into a plea bargain with the characters who squandered the goodwill of Nigerians? Has he accepted the apology and inadvertently dragged us as usual to several steps backwards?

Former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida has said he has no plan to defect to the ANPP, describing the purported plan as a speculation

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, yesterday, in Abuja, declared that the entire nation was presently soaked in corruption and that the judiciary sector is not exempted.

WHEN Dr Goodluck Jonathan became Acting President, while Yar’Adua was still receiving treatment in Saudi Arabia, he acquired substantial powers and started to take bold decisions that moved the country forward.

THE traditional ruler of Gbaramatu Kingdom in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State, HRM Ogeh Gbaraun III, in council with former militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemukpolo, a.k.a Tompolo, have successfully resolved the leadership crisis rocking Gbaramatu Youth Council of the Kingdom, even as he directed that pending court cases on the matter be withdrawn.

THE Senate, yesterday, directed its Committees on Petroleum (Upstream and Downstream) to investigate the recent claim by the Minister of State for Finance, Mr. Remi Babalola, that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, is insolvent and could not pay N450 billion owed the Federation Account Allocation Committee, FAAC.

Football is a victim. Its tormentors are the victors. The minor disagreements between the impeached Nigeria Football Association, NFA, bosses and those who have firmly grabbed the reins of football are part of the class fight for the sustenance of chaos in our football.

BY hindsight, he was confronted by the caucus of the party and he vehemently denied. But we all know that this denial never stood the test of time as he joined the PDP government led by Dr. Olusegun Agagu.

THE political crisis rocking Abia State deepened yesterday when the state House of Assembly served notice of impeachmenton the Deputy Governor, Comrade Chris Akomas, on account of what it called “allegations of gross misconduct.”

WE are used to the intriguing stories of seized oil vessels disappearing or security agencies conniving with their owners to grant them passage. Few years ago, some generals lost their commission over the issue.

This is not best of times for four ex-helmsmen of the Nigerian Football Federation, Mr Taiwo Ogunjobi, Sani Lulu, Uchegbulam Amanze and Bolaji Ojo-Oba, as they spent over 10 hours Thursday at the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, explaining the individual roles they played in an alleged mismanagement of about N1.4billion belonging to the football house.

THE Inspector General of Police, IG, Mr. Ogbonna Onovo, yesterday in Awka made a passionate plea to the people of the South East geo-political zone to rescue him from continued embarrassment and save his job by finding a lasting solution to the problem of kidnapping and increasing crime wave in the zone

IN their renewed efforts to check economic sabotage in the creeks of the Niger Delta, operatives of the Joint Task Force, JTF, code named Operation Restore Hope, have arrested nine barges containing substances suspected to be stolen crude oil together with eight suspected illegal oil bunkerers.