IN fact, this ought to be the real celebration as it should contain in it the ingredients that should move the country forward after all the music, dancing, parties, state dinners, dramas, etc, of the celebration are over.

AS the battle for the Agodi Government House in 2011 continues, the ex-Deputy Governor of Oyo State, Alhaji Gbolarumi Azeem has told his former boss, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala to be getting ready to leave the office.

AGAIN, I am taking President Goodluck Jonathan to task over a pronouncement by him on a major political issue.

AS far back as August 1600, William Shakespeare, in one of his best comedies, As You Like It, had reasoned clearly: “Sweet are the uses of adversity, which like the toad, ugly and venomous; wears yet a precious jewel on its head…”.

Speakers of North Central State Houses of Assemblies have declared their support for the 2011 election bid of President Gookluck Jonathan, insisting that the geo-political zone stands to benefit more in terms of socio-economic development under the Jonathan/Sambo presidency

Poet Omo Uwaifo does not beat about the bush. He goes to the heart of the matter, making every word to count. He does not dance around the subject, as he admits, “I cannot afford the luxury of the young who probably would have chosen to hope and wait for politicians to find the courage to tell them what the problems are and what they plan on doing to fix them.”

The House of Representatives yesterday said the recent call by the Inspector General of the Police, Alhaji. Hafiz Ringim, for scrapping of Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDS, was an affront on the National Assembly which made the law legalising the Corps.

A frontline governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kwara State, Engr. Sunday Adebayo Babalola, has enjoined the party leaders and other stakeholders to ensure that the party produced the next governor from Kwara South Senatorial District in the interest of fairness, justice and fair play

More than 50 pensioners in Sokoto State have died while awaiting their federal pensions from year 2000 to date. This was disclosed by Alhaji Ahmed Tangaza, Chairman of the Sokoto State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners, NUP, in Sokoto.

The market indicators for measuring the performance indices on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) the market capitalisation and the All share index ,Wednesday, appreciated by 0.09 per cent each.

It is meanwhile, praying the court to declare that the dissolution of the democratically elected 18 local government areas in Edo State by Governor Oshiomhole on October 25, 2010, is unconstitutional, illegal, null and void and of no effect whatsoever.

FACTS emerged, yesterday, that the 13 containers of rockets, grenades and other weapons intercepted at the Apapa Port, Lagos, by the State Security Service, SSS, were imported into the country with forged documents. The fake documentation aroused the suspicions of security agencies.

Former Governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday boasted that Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will lose in the 2011 general elections in the South-West.

LOANS are wonderful financial instruments, depending on who is borrowing, the lender, the purpose of the loans, and the sincerity of those who are proposing them.

International, yesterday, called on the Rivers State government, to halt its planned demolitions and evictions in waterfront areas of Port Harcourt, arguing that it will leave over 200,000 people homelessness, if the threat is carried out.