TOMORROW is Christmas. It may just happen on millions of Nigerians who have survived one of the worst years of their lives. While Christmas used to be awaited with anticipations of the joys of the season, 2010 has been a year of unequalled challenges in the race for survival.

I HAVE gradually become extremely disillusioned about certain aspects of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s regime. As I’ve said a couple of times in this column, he has too many unimpressive aides and ministers…and has not been sufficiently dynamic or inspirational since he took over from his late former boss, Yar’Adua.

GRAND Patron of the Ijaw Youth Congress, IYC, Prince Collins Eselemo, yesterday, took a hard stand against the gubernatorial aspirant of the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, in Delta State for the re-run election, Chief Great Ogboru, describing his claims against former Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan as deceitful and very insincere.

Ikole-Ekiti community, the site for the proposed federal university took to streets, yesterday, protesting alleged moves by certain powerful people in the state to relocate the new university, saying they were ready to defend the siting of the university in the town.

AS the Oyo State Governor, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala presented a budget proposal of N144. 1 billion to the state House of Assembly, a substantial portion of the budget was devoted to education.

PARENTS of the five pupils, who lost their lives in the November 2, 2010 collapsed water tank disaster in the Staff Model Nursery, Primary and Secondary School, SMNPSS, College of Education, Agbor, are demanding the sum of N18 billion each as damages

LUMEN Christi International High School, Edo state has won the West African Examinations Council’s, WAEC, Gold cup for 2009. The Council adjudged the Catholic owned College the overall best in the 2009 West African Senior Certificate Examination, WASSCE.

THE announcement by the Minister of State, Works Engr. Chris Ogiemwonyi on the cancellation of the expansion and modernization of the Benin – Lagos Road, from Oluku to 5-Junction in Benin City has pitched the leadership of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Edo State chapter against the Minister, with the newly elected state chairman of the party, Mr. Thomas Okosun, vowing to resist any attempt to disturb the process of the reconstruction of the road.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has promised reasonable power supply in the first quarter of his administration if elected President in 2011.

Families of 86 police officers felled by the bullets of men of the underworld during the year were yesterday presented with cheques worth N55 million by the Inspector General of Police, Hafiz Ringim.

Lagos — Only 20.04 per cent or 62,295 candidates obtained credit pass in English, Mathematics and three other subjects in the Nov./Dec. 2010 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE.

Anambra State branch of the Conference of Nigeria Political Parties, CNPP, has said in Awka that after scrutinizing all the aspirants for the House of Representatives for Anaocha/Dunukofia/Njikoka federal constituency on the platform of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, it decided to adopt Mr. Uzochukwu Okafor for the position because of his track records.

Ten persons were con-firmed dead, while 10 others were critically injured in an auto crash which occured in the early hours of yesterday on the Darazo-Bauchi road.

FORMER Deputy Governor of Delta State, Prof. Amos Utuama, SAN, has described Justice Thompson Dugbo (rtd) as a living legend, calling on the younger generation to emulate the life of service of Justice Dugbo in order to move society forward.

PANDEMONIUM broke out yesterday in Lagos after a team of Lagos state Special Taskforce on environment led by a Superintendent of Police (names withheld) stormed Makoko and Makinde areas of Yaba demolishing illegal structures.