FORMER Vice President Atiku Abubakar was chosen yesterday as the choice of the Northern political establishment to challenge President Goodluck Jonathan for the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

When Alice tested positive to HIV August last year,it was like her world had come to an end. “I was stooling and vomiting. I was so weak and could not eat, she told Good Health Weekly in a chat. “I was like a skeleton. “I had been to so many hospitals, but none ever mentioned HIV and I did not undergo screening till I came here, to the Police Hospital, Falomo.”

The proposed amendments to the Electoral Act which aim to grant membership of the National Executive Committees of political parties to federal legislators is the subject of criticisms from many stakeholders who describe the legislators’ motif as selfish.

A COUNTRY that wants to be taken seriously by her counterparts must recognise when it’s being insulted and know how to reject such insult.

ON Calvary God effected the completion of the execution of the sentence of death passed on Noah’s generation.

ONE of the groups established to drum up support for the presidential ambition of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and Arc. Namadi Sambo in next year’s general elections, Jonathan/Sambo Vanguard, JSV, said yesterday that it had the capacity, political will and resourcefulness to ensure that General Ibrahim Babangida, former Vice President Abubakar Atiku and others do not win at polls.

In response to the need for services of speech therapists and language facilitators, a team of speech therapists from ElkanUK in collaboration with Autism Associates & CADD Nigeria, is organising a training course for speech and language assistants, specialist teacher therapists, teaching assistants and school facilitators.

PROMINENT citizens, including elders, traditional rulers and political leaders in Uyo Senatorial District in Akwa Ibom State, have continued to reject any third term aspiration to the Senate by aspirants in the forthcoming 2011 elections.

Even as the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), began its s nationwide oral polio vaccination campaign weekend, experts identified Borno state as a poliovirus reservoir, saying it deserved special attention. It noted that the State now has the highest transmission of polio in the country.

NO Nigerian woman should die because she wants to give birth, says Minister ofHealth, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu.

The journey to Alh. Atiku Abubakar’s emergence as a consensus presidential candidate of a section of the North started, subtly, about seven months ago.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole is a man moving the train of development in Edo State at such a fast pace that would make the world’s fastest sprinter, Usain Bolt, green with envy. He is in a hurry to develop Edo State; he is in a hurry to halt the declining fortunes of the state and transform it to the state the people have always dreamed of; and in just two years, the dream is already taking a clear and beautiful shape.

THE issue of zoning which is presently at the centre of national discourse was presciently brought to mention almost thirty years ago by erstwhile governor of Benue State, Mr. Aper Aku. Aku’s prognosis on the imperative of zoning was against the background of the multifarious ethnic groups in Benue State. Vanguard Politics posits Mr. Aku’s zoning recommendations with the realities of his native Benue State today.

NIGERIAN women need to be allowed access to family planning services that would not only enable them have freedom to control the number and spacing of their children, but also help preserve their health and fertility and overall quality of life.

The first batch of children to benefit from various corrective surgeries facilitated by the Down Syndrome Foundation of Nigeria (DSFN) “Save-A-Life Project” have departed for India for the much needed life saving surgeries that would put their lives on track.