THE Federal Government has set 2020 as target for the realization of 70 percent self-sufficiency in local production of sugar, just as it frowned on the over N30 billion spent on the importation of the product annually for consumption in the country.

The raging debate on whether President Goodluck Jonathan should contest the 2011 election or not has continued to dominate public discourse, even when the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the PDP has cleared him to contest in the spirit of continuity and the joint ticket he has with the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. Though the NEC also insisted that zoning as enshrined in the party’s constitution should remain.

Nigeria’s state-owned oil company, Nigeria National Petroleum Company, NNPC, owes gasoline suppliers between $3 billion and $6 billion for previous imports, trade sources told Reuters, although the company said it was meeting its obligations.

EDO State Government has said that it will cost it over N100billion to address the problems of erosion and flooding in Benin City.

The Solomon Lar Centre has risen in defence of former PDP National Chairman, Chief Solomon Lar, over his support for President Goodluck Jonathan’s candidacy for next year’s election, saying it is in the country’s interest