ACTING President Goodluck Jonathan will, today, perform the inauguration of the Executive Council of the Federation, EXCOF, comprising 38 ministers and other presidential aides including the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF and the Head of Service of the Federation, HOSF, about a month after its dissolution.

NIGERIA is a land of the unimaginable and this is once more manifesting in the utterly reckless campaign by Maurice Iwu, the unlovable chair of our so-called Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and supporters bent on keeping him in office after years of organising what many see as some of the worst heist of the will of the Nigerian people via elections that had been designed to fail right from the moment of conception.

By Austin Ogwuda ASABA—SECRETARY to Delta State Government (SSG), Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, yesterday confirmed his intention to run for Delta North Senatorial seat in the forthcoming elections, saying he had formally bowed to pressures to enter the race. Although there are other unconfirmed aspirants on the queue for the seat, Okowa has become the first […]

By Babatunde Jimoh LAGOS — Director-General of Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation, NTDC, Otunba Olusegun Runsewe, said the corporation would continue to create the enabling environment for the development of the sector through effective regulatory frame work, strategic engagement with stakeholders, aggressive publicity and marketing campaign, logistics including technical support for tourism events and infrastructural development. […]

By Victor Ahiuma-Young UMUAHIA—A leading member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Abia State,  Chief Chime Asonye has joined the race for the governorship seat of the state, with a formal declaration to hold on 10 April 2010, at Old Umuahia ward of PDP. Asonye, a management consultant, according to his  campaign organisation, said […]