ABOUT two years ago, I got a text message from somebody who said he was Soboma George. He wanted to react to a column I had written but could not reach me. I called him. He sounded surprised, spoke about my column and I promised to publish his reaction which he sent in a text message.

ged the Uyo Township Sports Stadium, Akwa Ibom State to declare support for his presidential aspiration, barely few days to his official declaration for the 2011 general elections.

FOR the second day running, the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, failed to reach a compromise on the torny issue of whether the governorship, or the presidential primaries, should hold first.

LAST year, former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Dr. Aliyu Modibbo drew attention to the enormous powers Governors held because State Houses of Assembly were not strong enough to control them. He said governors had become emperors.

THE Warri Women Consultative Assembly, WWCA, has urged all aspiring political office holders in the Itsekiri nation to make themselves available to the electorate for assessment, saying that it would help in eliminating the problem of imposition of candidates.

The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, are set to start a three-day warning strike next week, to protest the new Rivers Social Services Contributory levy law 2010.

THE Police in Benin, Edo State, yesterday said that the recent spate of kidnappings and other violent crimes in the state were as as a result of the delay in reporting criminal cases to the police for prompt action.

As the Republic of Korea and Germany contingents looked on from the stands on Sunday, Nigeria gave an ominous warning in their final 2010 FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup Group A match with a 5-0 mauling of Chile at the Larry Gomes Stadium, Malabar.

AMATEUR Heavyweight boxers are protesting over the decision of the Nigeria Boxing Federation to exclude them from next month’s Commonwealth Games.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan says the nation’s economy recorded a growth of seven per cent in the last four years, a three per cent difference from the four per cent, four years ago, and that government is targeting an increase to 10 per cent by the end of 2012.

Underwriting companies under the auspices of Nigerian Insurers s Association (NIA) have extolled the decision of the Federal Government to allow the private sector to run the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), describing the decision as a step in the right direction.

TODAY’S formal declaration for the presidency by General Ibrahim Babangida is a bold attempt by one man to reconnect history.

Consolidated Hallmark Insurance plc (CHI) has upped its premium income for 2009 by 15.8 percent. The company recorded growth in its performance for the 2009 financial year, posting a premium income of N3 billion against N2.59 billion posted in 2008 thus representing 15.8 percent increase.

THE Federal Government has been called upon to increase its investment capacity in infrastructure development in the country if it must realise the much_talked about vision of becoming one of the 20 leading economies in the world by 2020.

TO prevent the spread of cholera epidemic, doctors in Oyo State have hurriendly called off their ongoing strike.