THE Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC) finally woke from its deep slumber to sack Professor Ndidi Okereke-Onyuike, the Director General of the Nigeria Stock Exchange(NSE). Also falling under the axe is the NSE Council and its president, Alhaji Aliko Dangote. Onyuike had sailed from the New York Exchange to the NSE in 1983 as a consultant and metamorphosed into the Exchange’s boss.

THE Nigeria Stock Exchange is in the news again for the wrong reasons. What began like a personal disagreement between the Director General Professor Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke and its President of Council Alhaji Aliko Dangote has resulted in the forced exit of the Exchange’s leadership by the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC.

IT is rightly said that politics is a game of number, conflict and compromise. It is a game of transitory alliances but permanent interests, even when there are no permanent friends and foes. In the entire nation as the year 2011 is fast approaching the political fervour is increasing, interests are allying and old alliances are shifting like quicksand.

AS the debate on zoning in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, continues, the pro-zoning Northern Elders and Leaders Forum, NELF, yesterday, met with key leaders of the Southeast with a resolve to back zoning.

As stakeholders con-tinue to consult and lobby for more support for the president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, ahead of next year’s presidential election, Ijaw leader and former Information Minister, Chief Edwin Clark, has hailed the commitment of the Cross River State Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke, to the project.