LEADER of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Front, NDPVF, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, is likely to contest the 2011 gubernatorial election in his home state, Rivers.

AS campaigns for the 2011 general elections hot up, Bini monarch, Oba Erediauwa, has advised political parties to present candidates, who will give good governance and accountability to the electorate.

OIL companies and operators of haulage vehicles have been urged to partner with the Rivers State government to ensure compliance with traffic laws in the state.

In a recent outing, Prof. Ben Egede of the Department of English, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, summarised the views on this side most succinctly, when he quipped rather angrily: “What is there to celebrate? Fifty years of looting from our national treasury by organised criminals masquerading as leaders of their people?

DICTATORSHIP often rears its ugly head in highly disguised manners. When we are under the illusion that we are in a democracy, it is easy to ignore the traces of authoritarian rule that creep into our affairs.

According to our sources, efforts are still going on to resolve the crisis.
ASUU officials and representatives of government met on 23rd September in Awka, Anambra State. At the meeting were Dr. Jaja Nwanegbo, Julius Ofodile and Levi Chinyaka Nwodu, on the ASUU side. The Government team had Barrister (Mrs) Ngozi Emelifeonwu, Head of Service, Professor Ikechukwu Ike and few others.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday sealed off the houses of former Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayo Fayose, located in Ibadan over what it described as his failure to obey court orders.

FORMER Director General of the Center for Democratic Studies, CDS, Prof. Omo Omoruyi, yesterday, admonished the Federal Government and the National Assembly to shift the handing over date further to allow the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to conduct a free and fair elections next year.

Nigeria had its own version of Gandhi, in the person of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, who built on the sound nationalist foundations of Pa Herbert Macauley. “Zik”, as his admirers fondly called him, was the doyen of African nationalism, who inspired other Black African giants such as Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, Madiba Nelson Mandela and the others.

CHAIR-MAN of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, yesterday, warned staff of the commission that there would be no tolerance for corruption of any kind in the forthcoming 2011 polls.