FORMER Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Bello Masari, has stated that General Mohammadu Buhari (rtd) remains the only credible presidential candidate in Nigeria just as he argued that the 2011 general elections will be a race between Buhari and whoever becomes the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate.

AS Nigerians await the decision of President Goodluck Jonathan on the forthcoming elections, Minister of State for Education, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, weekend, said President Jonathan will contest the presidency in 2011.

AFTER almost three years of pursuit, Nigeria yesterday attained US Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, Category 1 certification, which the American government described as a major milestone for the country.

A chieftain of the People Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Danladi Auyo, has described former military president, Ibrahim Babangida as a PDP asset for capturing the 2011 President election. He said if PDP failed to use him, it will mark the failure and the end of most popular party in Africa.

As Nigerians in the Diaspora mobilise funds for the completion of the late Dr Nnamdi Azikwe’s Mausoleum, some of them have called for probe of the contractors who have handled the job for the past 14 years

Enugu State government said yesterday a member of the State House of Assembly, Emmanuel Maduabum, who died last Tuesday from injuries sustained in a ghastly motor accident, was not flown abroad for treatment because doctors at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH, advised against it.

The menace of kidnapping has again raised its ugly head in Bauchi State as the 11-year-old son of a former Commissioner of Finance in Bauchi State (names withheld) was late Sunday evening whisked away by people suspected to be kidnappers in their Federal Lowcost Housing Estate residence in Bauchi metropolis

A VOLUNTARY anti-crime pressure group has been inaugurated to assist the law enforcement agents in combating crime in Issele-Uku, the headquarters of Aniocha-North Local Government Area and its environs.

THE Federal Government, yesterday, said it was ready to complete the unbundling of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, as part of efforts to revamp the company and enable it to provide efficient service to consumers.

When these teenagers, Chukwuebuka Orakwue and Oliver Orakwue, who were indegenes of Ifite-Ogwari area of Anambra State, had the opportunity of relocating to Lagos State, last May , a place they have always savored and constantly relished to visit, they embraced the offer with open hands, without an inkling of what awaits them.

IT is a little over a year that Lamido Sanusi Lamido swept away eight bank chief executives, and some of their directors, in a move the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor said would sanitise the banks and make them more accountable to the depositors and their shareholders.

AHEAD of formal declaration by President Goodluck Jonathan to contest 2011 presidential election, a campaign team headed by Vice-President Namadi Sambo and former Chairman of Board of Trustees, BoT, of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Tony Anenih, is already in place.

Their zeal for work was palpable; which is why everyday these workers, mostly women, some with their babies resting firmly on their backs, defy sun and rain as they storm major streets of Minna, the Niger state capital, with brooms and rakes in their hands to keep the streets clean. And with time, they succeeded in transforming the once dirty environment to a more friendly and habitable place.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, may release the timetable for 2011 elections this week following the signing of Electoral Act by President Goodluck Jonathan last Friday.

Former Nigeria assistant coach Joe Erico believes new head coach Samson Siasia deserves to earn as much as Lars Lagerback did during his short tenure.