Dr Olusegun Kokumo Agagu, former governor of Ondo State has faulted the emergence of a Northern Consensus Presidential Candidate, saying it has no basis. In this interview with Vanguard, the one-time Minister of Power and Steel, said the Adamu Ciroma-led committee could not speak on behalf of the entire North. Among others, he attributed the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, loss in the South West zone to questionable court verdicts made the party lose in the region.

FOR three and a half years Governor Rauf Aregbesola fought to reclaim the mandate freely given to him by the people of Osun State on April 14, 2007 before the Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan declared him as the true winner of that election . In his maiden press conference on Monday with journalists in the state, he spoke on a number of issues ranging from how he wants to be addressed and his programmes for the people of the state.

A family of four persons was roasted to death on, Wednesday, at Ayokoromor in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State during invasion of the community by the Joint Task Force, JTF, on the Niger-Delta in search of the leader of the Niger-Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, “General” John Togo.
Vanguard gathered that they were killed in their family home.

THE Police, yesterday, began investigation into the circumstances that led to the exchange of blows by the National Vice-Chairman, Southeast, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh and a member of the Board of Trustees, BOT, of the party, Chief Chris Uba in Owerri on Wednesday.

The Federal Government has approved the design of a super grid for a coal power station to supply 700 Kw to Benue State, Vice-President Nnamadi Sambo declared yesterday.

In very curious manner, the House of Representatives yesterday suspended a session with Central Bank Governor, Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. Sanusi was billed to flesh up his allegations before the House that the National Assembly alone has gulped 25 % of the 2010 overhead budget.

Indications emerged yesterday that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is planing to drag former Vice President of the the Unites States , Dick Cheney, to court over the roles he allegedly played in the $180 million Halliburton bribery scandal.

HOUSE of Representatives spokesman, Eseme Eyiboh, yesterday, explained why the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, caucus of the House has agreed to support President Jonathan Goodluck for the ticket of the party during its forth coming primaries.

IBADAN—Oyo State Governor, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala, has said the support of the South-West for the Goodluck/Sambo presidential ticket is unconditional, assuring President Jonathan that his job is perfectly done in the region.

AGAINST the backdrop of criticism over the remunerations of members of the National Assembly, a Chieftain of the Labour Party, LP, in Ondo State, Chief Olufemi Adekanmbi yesterday called for a drastic reduction in their remunerations in the interest of the nation’s economy.

IT looks delightful that the apostles of zoning and some Northern leaders of the ruling party (PDP) have announced their candidate – the former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku to challenge the incumbent President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.

THE people of Ayakoromor community in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State have protested Wednesday’s bombardment and burning of their community by men of the Joint Task Force, JTF, on the Niger Delta, but the task force continued with its operation, yesterday, vowing that it would smoke out John Togo wherever he is hibernating.

IN a democratic set up like ours, the legislature is the chief custodian and preserver of the constitution, the executive is the chief custodian and preserver of the policy of government and its execution, whilst the judiciary is the custodian to the interpretation of the constitution. By this configuration a constitutional tripod is established.

DR. Emmanuel Uduaghan may need to travel to planet mars to soothe the anger of elder_statesman Senator Edwin Clark over the way and manner he succeeded his first cousin, Chief James Ibori as Governor of Delta State.

BIOTECHNOLOGY, the practical use of biological processes in industrial production, is no more an arcane term, neither is it a new science.