Former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, yesterday, said he is in the 2011 presidential race to make a statement, vowing he would not drop the ambition to return to power.

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HUMAN rights activists including the former secretary of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), Comrade Frank Kokori, Femi Falana, Festus Keyamo, Ayo Opadokun, stormed Benin, yesterday, with one of the widows of the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi, to witness the commissioning of a township road and layout named after the deceased legal luminary , by Governor Adams Oshiomhole.

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Unlike the commercialists or the traders or the manufacturers they plied their intangible commodities as best as they possibly could.
Among the commercialists Femi Otedola, Felix Ibru, tower above many. And among those who gave Nigeria the good name in technology was Prof. Bart O. Nnaji Professor Tam David-West (did he receive his award?) And there was Professor Mosobalaje Olaloye Oyawoye. Of course, (Baba Kekere) Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande was among the beacons. He shone in Journalism and in politics.

As Nigeria moves closer and closer to the 2011 elections, politicians and other stakeholders in the political process have started strategising for the event. Attahiru Jega, a well-known academic who made a name for himself by leading the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) through a successful nationwide strike during the regime of Ibrahim Babangida, is now chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

We grew up in the East as the inheritors of fine examples of robust and dynamic leadership that saw Nnamdi Azikiwe straddling the African imagination like a force of nature, or men like Michael Iheonukara Okpara, whose leadership of the East remains without compare. While the Igbo was riding the crest of development and progress from 1957 to 1967, it felt like the rest of Nigeria could not touch its political helms, what with such colorful and eponymous names among its leaders: Akanu Ibiam, educator and missionary doctor, who approached public service with the instincts of a missionary.

France Radio, the European media powerhouse has commended sports radio 88.9 Brila Fm for the comprehensive and unbiased coverage of all sports issues, locally and globally, and has gone ahead to do a special radio documentary on the station, aired to its vast French audience in West Africa and Europe.

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Getting this interview done came with its own peculiar circumstances. After ceaselessly speaking with Kayode Idowu, a colleague and Chief Press Secretary to Professor Attahiru Jega, national chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and agreeing on an appointment for Thursday, Sunday Vanguard landed in Abuja earlier that day only to be told the appointment might no longer hold. Shocking! However, after much persuasion and Jega, coming from a background of immense accommodation, agreed to talk to Sunday Vanguard but with a caveat. That, you need not know! In this interview, the first since his appointment as INEC boss, Jega spat fire. Words like ‘sanction’, ‘penalize’, ‘deal with such individuals’, ‘criminal offence’, were freely used by Jega to demonstrate his resolve to deliver to Nigerians a credible election. His words: “As far as I am concerned, what I am saying is that if I have more time, I will deliver a better result;

Senator Chris Anyanwu is a no-nonsense woman who suffers no fool gladly. Before granting this interview, she needed to be sure the interviewer was not a lightweight, who would waste her time with irrelevances like: “As a woman…” Although at some point, there was no avoiding it because after all, she is indeed a woman. Albeit, an assertive and attractive one all the same.

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About 50 political parties may be de-registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, when the new Electoral Act passed by the National Assembly comes into effect.