The General Muhammadu Buhari-led Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, and the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, have commenced merger negotiations which would be cemented before the end of the year.
CPC’s National Organising Secretary, Mr. Richard Mnenga, said this while fielding questions from newsmen in Makurdi, Benue State, weekend.

Chief Edwin Kiagbode Clark is one foremost Ijaw leader who has become a household name in Nigeria on account of his struggle against the oppression of minorities by the larger ethnic groups. He has singlehandedly and severally helped to raise legal teams to assist minority rights activists.

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President Goodluck Jonathan has assured Nigerians and the international community of his government’s resolve to ensure the success of the 2011 general elections, stating that: “It shall be one man, one vote and that the vote of the people will count this time round.”

Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President, has emerged the consensus candidate for the Arewa people. He will contest against the official candidate of the PDP, Goodluck Jonathan.

FORMER Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd) said, weekend, that he was not prepared to join issues with Chief Olusegun Obasanjo because the former President was his senior in the military.

In the last two months, there has been a spike in brutal killings of individuals in Imo state. These deaths have been unmistakable contract killings. The manner of execution seems clearly clinical, unambiguous, calculated to create fear and exact maximum symbolic threat.

This is a report of how, expectedly, the announcement of the consensus candidate of the Northern Political Leaders’ Forum, NPLF, is reshaping the contest for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential contest.

AGGRIEVED ex-militants in the Niger-Delta who recently returned to the creeks, over their dissatisfaction with the post-amnesty programme, yesterday, dismissed the widely held notion that they would work against President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2011 presidential poll, saying, he (Jonathan) is their candidate.

Delta north political leaders have listed conditions upon which they would throw their weight behind Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan in the fresh governorship election ordered by the Appeal Court in Delta State.

Having clarified the concepts of morality and politics, it is now time to look closely at the role of morality in Nigerian politics.

PIONEERING graduates of the University of Benin are set to immortalize the founder of the university, Dr. Sam Ogbemudia and Chief Edwin K. Clark, (UNIBEN) minister of state for works, Chris Ogiemwonyi, disclosed in Benin City yesterday.

During the just concluded Lagos Book and Art Festival held at the National Theatre , Lagos, five Nigerian contemporary artists, Washington Uba (photo-artist), Soibifaa Dokubo (photo-artist), Jude Anogwih (video artist), Emeka Ogbor (video artist), and Jelili Atiku (video and performance artist) in an exhibition titled; Express Ver-bis ,presented a social and politically motivated issues during the festival’s visual art section.

“A man who cherishes great ideas and has performed only small acts….”Johann Schiller, 1759-87
That was the way Schiller described one elected official of his day. He could easily have been speaking of the governor of Imo State today.

For Iyorchia Ayu, Third Republic Senate President, what was thought to be impossible has become possible – without a backlash.

Handfuls of literature on how to deal with teenage offsprings are useless more or less when their hormones start raging. At least that’s what the experts tell us.