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.

As an acclaimed tourism destination in Nigeria, the Cross River State government has stated its determination to introduce new innovations into one of its tourism products, the annual Leboku new yam festival in Yakurr, which it said, shall be the fusion of the people’s culture and agriculture, with fantastic prizes lined-up for best harvesters and winners of the Leboku competitions.