Check out his visit to the PDP office last week and others like that. Jonathan on the other hand has been and seems determined to remain a very good student of the IBB school, at least with regards to managing his emotions. Looking then at the manner the PDP has handled questions of the presidential contest within the party so far, one would be forgiven to think Nigerian politics has entered a new era of tolerance.

In a bid to rid the country of unsuitable candidates during next year’s general elections, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, will partner all stakeholders to ensure that only credible politicians contested the election, Head, Media and Publicity of the anti-graft agency, Mr Femi Babafemi, disclosed this yesterday.

CHAIRMAN of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, yesterday, said the greatest challenge facing the commission was the short time within which to compile voters register and conduct the polls.

THE contractor handling the East-West Road between Warri and Port Harcourt, in the Niger Delta, Setraco Nigeria Ltd, yesterday, said that a detailed work plan had been mapped out to ensure it delivered the project on schedule.

WHAT appeared to be a fall out of the incident between Governor Chibuike Amaechi and wife of President Goodluck Jonathan at Okrika, when the latter paid a two- day visit to the state, manifested, yesterday, in Port Harcourt as Chiefs of Okrika, home town of the first lady, vowed to protect what they termed the “rights of Okrikans to the Port Harcourt waterfront communities.”

ELECTIONS have been confirmed for January 2011. We expected that politicians would have deemed it important to start engaging the people in discussions about their future, about the competence they are providing as leaders and their expectations from those they lead.

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, flagged off the training of over 140,000 teachers nationwide in line with the Federal Government’s 2010 Millennium Development Goal, declaring that the country’s crusade against poverty reduction will continue to be a mirage if it fails to invest in the education sector.

THE Federal Government, yesterday, ordered the contractor handling the Benin-Lagos Expressroad, Reynolds Construction Company, RCC, to rehabilitate the dilapidated Kilometre 95-91 Ofuso, Ondo State axis of the Lagos-Benin express road or face its wrath.

SINCE assumption of office as President, Commander-In-Chief of the armed forces Federal republic of Nigeria, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has not minced words about his unalloyed commitment to steady supply of electric power nationwide, he has also matched those words with action as he recently launched a roadmap for the reforms in this all-important sector, thereby proving his avowed resolve to tackle the perennial menace of shortage of electric power in the country with a dose of practical solutions.

British Airways apologised to passengers after an emergency message warning they were about to crash into the sea was played by mistake.