According to him, “the actors in Nigeria have unanimously decided to suspend Emeka Ike indefinitely for anti-guild activities. We have also stripped him as the Vice President, South East of the guild. Let me use this medium to state that the move to suspend him was not made by the Board of Trustees, but AGN members who have been monitoring his anti-guild activities for some time now.”

The word had spread like wildfire that King Sunny Ade has been chosen as Africa’s sole representative to perform at the opening ceremony at the 2010 edition of the World cup held in South Africa.

So much have been said and written about the true state of health of Fuji music maestro, Ayinde Barrister. But the most damning part of the story that really got us worried was when information filtered into our office that the famed fuji musician was in a coma.

Few hours after he led members of the Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria (MCSN) in a protest march to denounce the decision of the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) to licence a single CMO in the country, former PMAN president Charly Boy was a guest of the Police command in Abuja.

Interestingly, while the Nigerian Copyright Commission which is under the Ministry of Justice shut its doors to the protesting musicians and the DG, Professor Adewopo absent, the AGF was on hand to receive the protesters.

In his reaction, factional National Chairman of All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, Chekwas Okorie has dismissed the communique issued by the so-called leaders of the South-East and Northern Summit as a decision of political businessmen who have been out of relevance and are desperately looking for relevance in the scheme of things and therefore should not be taken serious.

When Governor Ikedi Ohakim addressed Imo stakeholders January 4 this year, he promised that local government elections, which had been on hold in the last six years, would be conducted in August.

Tenacity and audacity seem to be Atiku Abubakar’s middle name. The former Nigerian Vice-President has finally fixed Sunday August 15, 2010 to declare his presidential ambition, against all perceived odds.

THE sudden and desperate efforts to change the rules of the game midway will make the Igbos another weeping boy of the Nigerian politics. Igbos will again become victims of political frustrations in Nigeria.

THE Jonathan Goodluck Success Movement, JGSM, has called on Nigerians to mount pressure on President Jonathan to contest 2011 presidential elections, as the country needed somebody like him to move the country to the next level of human and infrastructural development.