IGBO people residing in Malaysia have endorsed Mr. Onyebuchi Diboh on his quest to become the first elected President of Ohaneze Ndigbo in Kempong, Kuala-Lumpur, Malaysia, in their first ever general election which is expected to hold October 2, 2010.

THE test of strength between rival groupings within the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and how it ended during the party’s last national congress at Abuja may have pointed to the direction the crisis-ridden party’s primaries would go.

As you are reading this piece, fresh crisis is brewing in the the Actors Guild of Nigeria(AGN) as factional president of the guild, Emeka Ike, has perfected plans to drag the leadership of the guild to court over what he calls ‘illegal occupation of office by the incumbent executives’.

THE jumbled and slapdash pattern of providing free social services to the people by some States and regions over the years in Nigeria has consistently failed to produce desired results.

Eight days to the 50th anniversary of Nigeria’s independence, some parts of Lagos metropolis are wearing a new look as roads and buildings are being painted in white and green national colours

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, said that the May 29, 2011 handover date to a new democratically elected government was sacrosanct, just as he stressed that he and the people of Nigeria would not compromise the date.

The N300 billion Power and Aviation Intervention Fund, PAIF, set aside by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to help sustain private sector investment in the two sectors, is set for disbursement as the Bank of Industry, BoI, managers of the Fund, yesterday in Lagos, hosted a Technical Session for participating banks.

AHEAD the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC’s meeting with the National Assembly on Monday, the legal implications of its proposal to postpone the 2011 polls to April have continued to raise dusts in the polity.

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, will today rule on the bail application brought before it by five accused persons connected with unlawful importation of 450.4 kilogrammes of cocaine valued at over N4.2 billion.

The President of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, Chief Kola Jamodu, has pointed out that for Nigeria to achieve its millennium development goal, its needs to annually pump $15 billion into the real sector of the economy for the next six years.