The Con-gress for Progressive Change, CPC, is headed for the rocks, as erstwhile Chairman of its Convention Committee, Mr. Mike Ahamba’s ambition to lead the party has put him on war path with the party’s presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd).

THE crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, appears to be unending as two prominent Senators, daughter of former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, Iyabo Obasanjo–Bello representing Ogun Central and Olalekan Mustapha, representing Ogun East, yesterday, shunned the party’s National Assembly Screening Committee which started its work in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital.

Osun state Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, has advised the Senate President, Senator David Mark to drop the toga of arrogance and behave like a statesman by virtue of his position as number three citizen of the country.

Scores of sympathisers and thousands of fuji music lovers yesterday thronged the residence of the late fuji maestro, Sikiru Ayinde Barrister as news filtered in that he would be buried in his Isolo residence yesterday.

A 25-year-old National Youths Service Corps, NYSC, member, Miss Bere Basiri, was yesterday arraigned before an Abeokuta Chief Magistrate’s Court for allegedly abandoning her 14-day-old baby.

THE Benin National Congress, BNC, a Bini socio-cultural organisation, has lamented that the President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government had continued to pay lip service to the persistent call for the repatriation of the priceless Benin artifacts looted by the British in 1914.

Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, yesterday, presented a budget proposal of N88,143,131,600.00 to the state House of Assembly. The proposed budget is lower than the N108 billion prepared by his predecessor in office, former Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola before his ouster.

THE leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was, yesterday, thrown into confusion following disagreements over the composition of the presidential screening committee.

IT is also a good democratic concept that Government should spread whatever it has evenly. As much as possible, development must be spread evenly across the nation. Poverty also gets an even spread among the people. And Government must introduce sanctions for all those who deviate from the norm.

RIVERS State Government has appealed to residents of B Dere and K Dere communities in Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State, who fled the areas in the wake of Tuesday clash between two rival groups in area, to come back as securitymen had been deployed to maintain peace in the areas.

The executive committee of the Nigeria Football Federation rose from its meeting held yesterday at the Le Meridien Hotel, Uyo Akwa Ibom state with a resolution to uphold the Professor Ibidapo Obe Arbitration Tribunal set up by the former Abdullahi Lulu-led board on the Nigeria Premier League leadership tussle.

ACTIVITIES at the Delta State headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Asaba, were disrupted for about two hours, yesterday, when a group of protesters stormed the premises to protest the Commission’s insistence on using the old voters’ register to conduct the governorship re-run coming up on 6, January 2011.

SINCE the day Reverend Father Lutz from France stepped his feet on the soil of the ancient city of Onitsha in 1885, the history of the people of Eastern Nigeria has not been the same.

Ahead of the 2011 presidential election, Nigerian youths yesterday endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan as the only man that could make Nigeria a greater nation.

THE Niger Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, has called on the Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt. General Onyeabo Ihejirika, not to exacerbate the needless face-off between the militant group and the Joint Task Force, JTF, on the Niger Delta, by supporting the manhunt for its leader, “General” John Togo, even when he (Togo) had earlier promised to surrender his arms and ammunition.