Sequel to the exclusive report which presented a secret position paper inspired by the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, in 2002, which we published last week, we bring you in this edition minutes of an expanded caucus meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which had Olusegun Obasanjo and President Goodluck Jonathan in attendance whereupon it was decided by a landslide vote that zoning should be observed and adhered to. In the light of the raging arguments for and against zoning, this report brings an uncommon illumination on the issue of zoning, its merits and demerits, its implications as well as the denial that zoning was never agreed to by the PDP.

Managing Director of Brass LNG Ltd, Mr. Vicenzo D’Lorenzo, has said the company pioneered the implementation of the Nigerian Content Act with deliberate steps taken by it to shore up the involvement of Nigerians in the compny’s operations.

A member of the Federal House of Representatives, Mr Patrick Obahiagbon, yesterday, faulted the decision by the House to suspend eleven members over their role in the allegations of misappropriation of funds leveled against the Speaker, Dimeji Bankole.

The police in Enugu have arrested a third year medical rehabilitation student of the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, (name withheld) believed to have masterminded the kidnap of his course mate, Miss Ifeoma Azubuike, in April this year.

PDP chieftain, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, says Governor Theodore Orji’s dumping of PPA and the face-off with his political mentor, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, has vindicated him and his party, the PDP, that the state was in bondage of one man and family.