EMINENT Nigerian leaders including three former Heads of State and all living former Chief Justices of the Federation have called on President Umaru Yar‘Adua to transfer power to his deputy, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, in accordance with provisions of the Constitution.

I called the Eagles camp to discuss the match with Zambia with them. I congratulated them for their victory but immediately registered my observations and asked why were they so negative in their approach. They made more passes back than going forward.

THE Ministry of Finance, yesterday, said that toxic assets from banks have grossed N1.5 trillion, even as Chairman of the Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, revealed that the banks were burdened with bad loans to the tune of N450 billion.

ALHAJJ Issa Hayatou has been President of CAF since March 1988 almost 22 years ago. Some of today’s players in Angola had not been born then. Hayatou was his country’s 400m and 800m and member of the national basketball team of Cameroon at the 1st All Africa Games in Brazzaville. He was President of Cameroun Football Federation when he assumed the CAF presidency.

Jos (Jesus our Saviour to many) is a fine city with an agreeable climate and a melting pot of many cultures and various traditions. Jos in the past, was a place Nigerians would like to spend their retirement days in peace and tranquility.

The death toll in the measles epidemic ravaging Oweikurogha community in Bayelsa State has hit 25.
This is coming against the backdrop of assurances by the state government yesterday said it had restricted the epidemic from spreading to neighbouring settlements on its coast line in the Southern Ijaw local government area of the state.

Though the House of Representatives has formally agreed not to delve into the controversy surrounding President Umaru Yar’Adua’s refusal to formally write the National Assembly on his long medical leave to pave way for an acting President, it would appear that no fewer than 200 members of the House are regrouping to insist that the President bows to section 145 of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Clemens Westerhof, the man who built Nigeria’s football and who is now watching it plummet called from his base in South Africa to react to Nigeria’s defeat this way:

A human rights activist, Mr. Bamidele Aturu, yesterday, dismissed as illegal, unconstitutional, immoral, unconscionable and a total sham, the resolution passed by the Federal Executive Council FEC, declaring President Umaru Yar’Adua fit to continue governance.

By  Vincent Ujumadu AWKA— THE who is who in Action Congress, AC, yesterday, stormed the commercial city of Onitsha in Anambra State, to lend support for Dr. Chris Ngige, the party’s governorship candidate in the February 6 election. Among those who led to traffic standstill for several hours were Governors Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, […]

Following last Tuesday’s Navy helicopter crash at Ogbodo Swamp, Isiokpo village in Rivers State, after a routine investigation of illegal bunkering activities by some economic saboteurs, the Nigerian Navy said, yesterday, that it suspected no foul play. It added that a high-powered board of inquiry has been set up to investigate the cause of the crash.

PALPABLE air of anger is currently blowing across army formations in the country following a restriction order on the movements of personnel in and around the barracks.

At last, Nigeria’s below-par showing at the 27th Africa Cup of Nation was yesterday attracted its commensurate reward as Ghana’s youngsters inflicted a 1-0 defeat on the Eagles, who from the start of the tourney, had showed signs of a failed side.

THE Deputy Inspector-General of Police, DIG, Israel Ajao, investigating the gruesome slaying of the gubernatorial candidate of the Action Congress, AC, in the 2007 election in Ogun State, Otunba Dipo Dina, has moved his operations to Zone 11 Headquarters in Lagos.

The retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Kayode Eso, has advised ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua that he should save the nation from plunging into constitutional crisis by adhering strictly to the provisions of the 1999 constitution.