FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, paid condolence visits to Governor Adams Oshiomhole and the family of the late elder statesman, Chief Anthony Enahoro, saying that a golden era in the history of the country “is coming to a total end.”

NEWLY elected Edo State Chairman of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Mr Thomas Okosun, yesterday, expressed dismay over the cancelation of expansion of Benin/Lagos Road from Oluku to five junctions by the Minister of State for Works, Dr. Chris Ogiemwonyi.

TRADE Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, has expressed concern over increasing use of inciting and uncivilised campaign languages by the nation’s politicians ahead of 2011 general elections and demanded immediate stoppage of such languages in the interest of peace and Nigeria’s democracy.

Prof Julius Ihonvbere, former aide to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, in his
presentation at the just concluded ‘5th International Conference on Federalism’ in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, strongly spoke out against African leaders, who ascend to power, only to exploit and impoverish their people.

TWENTY SEVEN of 29 governorship aspirants jostling for governorship under the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the South West including Oyo State governor, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala; former deputy governor of Lagos State, Mr. Femi Pedro; and the consensus candidate of the party in Ogun West Senatorial district, Mr. Gboyega Nasir Isiaka, were yesterday said to have scaled the screening exercise by PDP screening committee for South-West geo-political zone.

CHIEF Ikechi Emenike, the only aspirant who bought PDP form to challenge Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State in 2011 elections, yesterday, officially declared his interest, even as he lamented what he called disturbing trend of political intolerance by the state government.

Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State, has ordered the immediate sack of the interim Chairman of Ibadan South-East Local Government, Abiodun Adedoja Ekolo, believed to be the candidate of his deputy, Alhaji Taofeek Arapaja.

THE Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said that it has not been official notified of the unbanning of textile materials and other items recently removed from the import prohibition lists Area Comptroller of the Apapa Area 1 Command Mr. Abdulkabir Azarema told Vanguard that Customs has not received any instruction regarding the lift on the ban of certain goods hitherto banned.

TEN years is an awfully long time for any man to plunge neck-deep into the murky waters of professional boxing and remain therein, and by which period preliminary layers of the dreaded scar tissues that is the boxers traditional curse have become considerably manifest.

THERE is something that nobody, even the greatest iconoclast, can take away from this National Assembly – the sheer courage to venture into an area of its responsibility that was hitherto regarded as sacrosanct.