A JOHANNESBURG court in South Africa was, yesterday, told that the former leader of Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND, Henry Okah, who is facing trial for allegedly masterminding the October 1 twin car bombs in Abuja allegedly sent a go_ahead to his accomplices in Nigeria to detonate the bombs.

MOVED by the lingering political crisis in some state chapters of the Peoples Democratic Party, the National leadership of the party has ordered a fresh congresses in six states of Anambra, Bayelsa, Enugu, Imo, Kogi, and Oyo, commencing today with ward congresses.

SENATOR Dahiru Kuta, PDP, Niger; said yesterday, that the decision of political leaders from the North Central geo_political zone asking former military president General Ibrahim Babangida and Dr. Bukola Saraki to withdraw from the presidential race was not binding on the Peoples Democratic Party in Niger State because the state was solidly behind General Ibrahim Babangida.

Erstwhile Minister of Finance Minister and the leader of the Northern Political Leaders Forum, Mallam Adamu Ciroma has said the North would use every legal and democratic means to scuttle the 2011 presidential ambition of the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan.

Youths/Students Vanguard, a group under Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has kicked against the purported move by Northern Elders Forum to produce a consensus presidential aspirants come 22nd October.

Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has listed qualities which according to the group, the electorate should consider before casting their votes for candidates at the 2011 general elections.

The mood of the Igbo is that they have embraced the Jonathan presidency because of the kith and kin issue with the South-South and power has been in the North for long

THE government of Enugu State has dispelled media reports that Governor Sullivan Chime was in conflict with Nsukka people in the Enugu North senatorial district.

UNLESS the party’s constitution and the electoral laws are abided to in electing the most suitable candidates for the seats of the Edo Central senatorial district of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the House of Representatives, House of Assembly and other elective positions in the forthcoming elections, the party in the district is bound to experience avoidable internal crisis, which could spell doom for the party and make it to lose woefully to its opponents in all elections.

Justice administration within the Federal Capital Territory has assumed a new dimension as FCT Judiciary yesterday said it had perfected plans to commence electronic-Court system from January 2011

FRANCE has expressed its determination to partner Nigerian authorities in the conduct of the 2011 elections.
The French Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Jean Michel Dumond, who made the statement when he paid a courtesy call on Governor Peter Obi in Awka, however, did not give details of the anticipated partnership

The victory of Dr Olukayode Fayemi, the governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the 2007 elections in Ekiti State is another elixir to bolster the courage of those who refuse to bow to injustice in Nigeria

THE Association of Cocoa Farmers in Edo State, has accused the state government of alleged attempt to kill the sector by the imposition of what it described as excessive tax on the sector.

The most striking feature I gathered from Sani Ndanusa’s reported reflections at the reception last week of Team Nigeria from the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi was, perhaps, the unfortunate drug incident that marred our glittery outing and which denied us the track gold medal taken by a female sprinter.

ONE person was confirmed dead and several houses torched, Tuesday night, when fight broke out between K Dere and B Dere communities, all in Gokhana Local Government Area of Rivers State. Confirming the development to Vanguard, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs Rita Inoma- Abbey, linked the clash to several factors.