The Imo State chapter of the Jonathan/Sambo Presidential Campaign Organisation last weekend inched a step forward towards ensuring victory for President Goodluck Jonathan in the PDP primaries when it inaugurated the coordinators of the 27 local government areas.

Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Timipre Sylva, has condemned, yesterday’s, attack on the campaign rally of the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, General Mohammadu Buhari (rtd).

THE Angli-can Bishop of Amichi Diocese in Anambra State, Rt. Rev. Ephraim Ikeakor, has accused Nigerian politicians seeking re-election in 2011 of deliberately fooling the people.

I CANNOT recall when and how I first met Edidem Bassey Ekpo Bassey II. He came across like an elder brother I have always known. Over the last quarter of a century, we met mostly in Lagos where he frequented, and in the last few years, in Abuja where I moved base.

PIONEER National Secretary and National Treasurer of Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, Dr. Sam Nkire, has expressed support for the proposed alliance between Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, and PPA ahead of the 2011 general elections.

THE constant closures of academic institutions over the last several decades, through arbitrary actions on the side of government as well as of students and academic unions incessantly going on strike, has not helped the situation any. Permanent institutional constructs must be put in place to overcome this endemic dislocation of the academic system.

Chief Ojo Maduekwe, the immediate past Foreign Affairs Minister, said politics should be made more attractive to accommodate the intelligentsia and critical minds in the country.

Governor Chibuke Amechi’s entry into the Rivers State Government House in 2007 quite after the inauguration of his colleagues was unusual. It seems his bid for the second term may take an equally unusual route.

FORMER Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Mr Friday Aderemi and some chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP in Ido-Osi Local Government area of the state have decamped to Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN.

I knew my husband was not that keen on sex when we got married seven years ago. Even with marriage, our sex life has never been amazingly passionate or regular.

SINCE the advent of the Fourth Republic, calls for a convocation of a Sovereign National Conference, SNC, have been on the front burner of the nation’s political discourse.

FOLLOWING the recent announcement by Mr. Adetokunbo Kayode, the Minister of Defence of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that female candidates will now be admitted into the Nigerian Defence Academy with effect from the 2011 academic session, many of those who read my book, ‘Thunder, Lightning & Storm’ have made contact to express ‘solidarity’ with me.

THE Edo State Government, yesterday, sealed off all branches of the Bank PHB in the state for alleged failure of the bank to pay its tax liabilities to the state estimated at over N155million.

EVEN in conventional wars, there is emphasis on the safety of civilian population. Enough intelligence is gathered to isolate and attack the target.

Delta Commissioner for Communication, Chief Paulinus Akpeki spoke to Vanguard on the politics of Delta and why Deltans should return Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan as governor among others. Excerpts: