Former Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku has warned that the ongoing debate on zoning within the PDP is not in the interest of the nation. Read the respected view of the world statesman here below:

ALTHOUGH my effort here is the place of Igbos in the political scheme of things in the face of the raging debate on “the principle of power rotation or zoning” in Nigeria; I have commenced this treatise deliberately with the above title fully convinced that by origin of the Igbo, we are not just found in Nigeria only; there are Igbos in the Diaspora and we have accepted ourselves as descendants of children of Abraham, the Jewish patriarch.

A group of over 43.9 million unemployed Nigerians under the aegis of the National Council for the Unemployed, NCU, has tasked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to review its engagement strategy in recruiting ad-hoc staff for the 2011 elections to include the unemployed graduates in the country.

Another set of quadruplets has been born at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi Araba, Lagos. It is the second time in seven days that quadruplets will be safely delivered at the tertiary health institution, reputed to have the most functional neonatal unit in the country.

Chair-man of Ogoja Local Government Area in Cross River State, Mr. Joe Eweh, has called on mothers to breast feed their babies exclusively with breast milk for the first six months of the babies lives, without even water, saying research had shown that infants digest breast milk better than the formula or any other food.

IN their effort to maintain decency and differentiate Christians in society, the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Warri South Chapter, Delta State, has planned a rally to protest against indecent dressing among men and women and dirty environment.

Paw-Paw’s screen twin, Chinedu Ikedieze popularly known as Aki was one of the distinguished Nigerians who were accorded recognition last Thursday by the Federal Government. A gesture which generated controversy as many stakeholders in the movie sector blamed the government for failing to extend the same treatment to the other actor.

WORRIED by the alarming rate of unfair labour practices in the Petroleum industry and its threat to industrial unrest, the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has petitioned the Minister of Petroleum Resources, urging him to address the issues to calm the restiveness in the sector and avoid industrial unrest.

THE Edo State Task Force Committee on Anti-Pipeline Vandalisation, has arrested eight tankers involved in alleged illegal bunkering, just as it warned community leaders to desist from conniving with those involved in the illegal business to avoid arrest.

AS a result of the poor quality of teachers being produced by the nation’s Colleges of Education as exemplified by their lack of in-depth knowledge of subject contents, the Governing Council members of Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (AOCOED) have been urged to review the teachers education programme of the college and give premium to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in order to enable the student-teachers of the college compete with their counterparts anywhere in the world.