A nationwide voters’ awareness sensitization group, the Goodluck Girls committed to mobilizing over 30 million young female voters between the ages of 18-40 years to volunteer and vote for Goodluck Jonathan in the 2011 General election, has entered into partnership with Senator Annie Okonkwo Campaign Organization, SACO, for the polls.

FOLLOWING in sinuations that there may be scarcity of petroleum products, especially Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, (petrol) during the yuletide, the management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has assured Nigerians of sufficient supply of all petroleum products as it has enough to last all through the yuletide and beyond.

THIS has been quite an engaging year. It is one I am tempted to call the Year Of The Miners in appreciation of the Chilean miners who emerged after been buried seven hundred metres in the earth’s bowels. Their rescue was a miracle enacted by human ingenuity and the blessing of The Almighty.

Dockworkers branch of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, has suspended its plan to shut down ports operations across the country over delay by Terminal operators to review their conditions of service six months after the subsisting one elapsed

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has declared his intention to go back to Senate next year just as he described the Court of Appeal judgment that brought Governor Rauf Aregbesola into the office as a perversion of justice.

Delta North Senatorial aspirant, Mr. Ned Nwoko, has faulted the Senate for granting the president approval to take external loan to the tune of $1.6 billion, “ given the past history of profligacy and scam inherent in such transactions.”

GOVERNOR Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State, yesterday presented to the Lawmakers for approval the 2011 Appropriation bill of N138.500billion as against N124.371 billion budgeted this year.

IN pursuit of their bid to stop former Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan from re-gaining the coveted seat in the re-run gubernatorial election ordered by the Appeal Court, the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and the Republican Party of Nigeria, RPN, yesterday, in Warri, Delta State, formally formed a formidable alliance to unseat the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state.

THE Court of Appeal in Enugu yesterday vacated its earlier interim order restraining the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from conducting fresh congresses to elect new members of the party’s executive committee in the state.

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.