For some weeks, the quiet but serious minds of many Nigerians might
have been disturbed by the incessant noises about the 2011 elections by some politicians of various shades.

AS the nation anxiously awaits the decision by President Goodluck Jonathan whether to contest the presidential elections or simply step aside, elders and leaders of the South East and the South South geo-political zones of the country, yesterday, in Abuja vowed to work towards the actualization of President Goodluck Jonathan as President in the 2011 elections.

IT was exciting listening to the challenges of sports (football) at the public hearing that the Sports Committee of the House of Representatives had on the faltering fortunes of Nigerian football. So many perspectives, many ideas and in some cases outright jocularity ruled the day when I made an appearance on Thursday.

The State Security Service, SSS, in Abuja, yesterday, interrogated the Editor of Summit Daily, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, over a story published in last Friday’s edition of the paper.

IT is no longer enough for President Jonathan Goodluck to condole families of those who die at police check points. His call for investigations are inadequate. Denials that police check points cause accidents are insults to the dead and their family and a confirmation that the police would not dismantle them.

NATIONAL Economic Management Team, NEMT, and the World Bank, yesterday, endorsed a pact with stakeholders in the public and private sector to stem youth unemployment in the country.

A global network of Judges under the aegis of the International Commission of Jurists, ICJ, has tasked President Goodluck Jonathan to pay closer attention to the justice delivery sector, even as it warned the Federal Government to take the mounting cases of human rights abuse by both local corporations and multinational oil companies operating in the country more serious.

SUPER British model Naomi Campbell initially declined when invited to testify against former Liberian president, Charles Taylor at his ongoing trial at the United Nations special court for Sierra Leone in the Hague.

FEDERAL Government, yesterday, announced a new gas pricing regime for the industrial sector, with a view to revamping and boosting indigenous manufacturing capacity.

CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria has directed banks operating in the country to immediately set machinery in motion to implement a Nigerian uniform bank account number standards.