LAGOS—DEPUTY Senate Leader and member National Assembly Joint Committee on Constitution Review, Senator Victor Ndoma Egba SAN, yesterday, said that fresh amendment of the 1999 Constitution and Electoral Act 2010 would be tight but stressed that the exercise would be carried out because of the exige

ALL is set for a grand summit of Igbo political leaders, especially those positively disposed to the preservation of the zoning arrangement of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, today in Hotel Concorde, Owerri

performance against his team, was quoted as saying that one day, a referee’s corpse will be picked on the field of play.

On the threshold of our golden jubilee, we have a crop of presidential aspirants who are depending on ethnic and sectional calculations for their winning the race.

Those who argued about the injustice of people improperly elected assuming offices, benefitting from the spoils of the office until a court annuls the election, had expected that elections held four months to the handover date would provide enough time to dispose of cases at the tribunals.

FORMER Senate Chief Whip, Senator Rowland Owie, weekend, described as ill motivated, the call by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for the extension of the 2011 general elections. He called on the National Assembly not to approve the extension.

Delta State Government has denied insinuations by Chief Kenneth Gbagi, Minister of State for Education, whose country home was recently invaded by a combined team of soldiers and policemen, that Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan was behind the attack.

Your editorial of September 24th 2010 titled: “The Balewa Saga” raised some interesting issues and frankly amused me. This was especially so when the writer asserted that “at five” I “was too young to have known what happened” and that I am relying on what my father told me “to refute Mbu’s story”.

ABIA State politics is gradually gaining momentum with the immediate past deputy governor of the state, Comrade Chris Akomas, picking governorship form on the ticket of Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, to challenge his former boss, Governor Theodore Orji.

Hi Readers! Do know that feeling of deflation you have, when on rushing home to report to your mother a clever thing you’ve done, and you meet a blank stare from her, indicating that what you considered ‘being clever’ was actually an act of stupidity? That was how I felt when I got home and told nanny of my encounter with Belinda in the office in Ikeja.