I must confess that we are no longer making much money as we used to make in the recent past, simply because the producers are no longer making much money as they used to make. Definitely, it’s affecting whatever they are paying to the artistes.

ANGRY reactions have trailed former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s suggestion that ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua should follow the path of honour by resigning, if his health will not allow him to perform the duties of his office.

Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South AT the moment, the Northwest geopolitical zone is the ruling power bloc in the country with bedridden President Umaru Yar’Adua, his wife Mrs. Turai Yar’Adua and members of his kitchen cabinet, principally from Katsina state as the power brokers.

*At what point does one arrest the national scene that seems to be moving on the wings of a typhoon, when mayhem has erupted once again in a section of the country not unknown to widespread violence, at a time when the not unusual comprehensive shortage of fuel supply has all but prostrated the country, […]

It is against this backdrop that we approach the coming election of February to determine who takes charge of governance in the state. It isn’t because a civilised political atmosphere prevails in Anambra that most people are standing on edge over the possible outcome of the polls. On the contrary, every one is scared that there is cause for concern because of the violence which is daily escalating in the state.

FORMER Abia State governor, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu has disclosed how former President Olusegun Obasanjo deliberately brought Yar’Adua because he though that he (Yar’Adua), would die during campaign so that he (Obasanjo) will continue in office.

THE crisis rocking the Ogun Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took another dimension as the factional Chairman, Alhaji Semiu Sodipo yesterday announced the suspension of Elder Joju Fadairo and the immediate setting up of a panel to try him for anti_party activities.

“It is a good judgment. All the issues, six in number, brought by the plaintiffs, the court dismissed them.

A Coalition of 26 Civil Society groups and political parties including Centre for Democracy and Development(CDD), West Africa Civil Society Forum, National Human Rights Commission, Coalition of Nigerian Political Parties yesterday gave President Umaru Yar’Adua 31st January as ultimatum to properly hand over to Vice President Goodluck Jonathan as acting President.

The collaboration between Senate Presidents and their deputies in the fourth republic has until the Mark – Ekweremadu dispensation been a cat and mouse affair.

THE Anglican Bishop of Enugu and former Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Bauchi State chapter, Bishop Emmanuel Chukwuma has condemned the current mayhem in Jos, Plateau state which has claimed hundreds of lives and properties worth billions of naira, saying that the crisis has seriously threatened the corporate existence of Nigeria as a nation.

By Aliyu Adekunle The Board of United Bank for Africa Plc has announced  the appointment of Mr. Phillips Oduoza as Group Chief Executive Designate This was made known in a statement made available to the press on Friday. Oduoza will take over as the Group Chief Executive of the Bank from Elumelu on August 1, […]

By Olayinka Latona A cleric,   Rev. Dr. E. Kayode Opadeji, of First Baptist Church, Ikeja, Lagos has asked Nigerians and  the church of God to pray for the country especially for the forth coming elections.

Former Personal Assistant to President Olusegun Obansanjo and the gubernatorial candidate of the Labour Party in the February gubernatorial election in Anambra state, Dr. Andy Uba has assured the people of Anambra state of massive infrastructural renewal if he wins the forthcoming election.