Before now, political parties had not realised the importance of marketing Communication in the dissemination of political messages.
But like a new dawn in the political landscape of Nigeria, Dr. Okwesili Nwodo, National Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), flagged off a campaign to reform the party with the aim of repositioning the party for positive values.

IN the past few months, the National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) has been in the news on account of the whereabouts of about N417 million, being the balance of funds yet to be remitted after the tricycles known as Keke NAPEP had been supplied to beneficiaries.

Recently, 13 containers of arms and ammunition, including rocket launchers, mortars, live cartridges and grenades were intercepted at the A.P. Moller Terminals in Apapa Port, Lagos. Barely one month later, the Port and Terminal Multi-services Limited (PTML) Customs Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) intercepted 76 rounds of live ammunition and a spent bullet concealed in two vehicles. Sunday Vanguard spoke to maritime experts on the implications of arms shipment into Nigeria.

“One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community” —Albert Einstein, 1879-1955.

Men’s fear of commitment goes beyond the ordinary l must say. Why don’t they want to settle down or ‘tie the knot’? Sometimes, it takes years with a particular woman and children in between to make a man tie the knot. In other cases, you will see a man having a live-in lover and they have children between them, yet they are not legally married and every time the woman reminds the man of it, he panics.

Bashir Ibrahim Yusuf was one time Secretary of the Northern Consultative Group and member, All Nigeria Congress Foundation. He was a Special Assistant to President Obasanjo on Conflict Resolution and served in Mallam Adamu Ciroma’s Northern Political Leaders Forum that selected Atiku Abubakar as consensus candidate.

The Supreme Court yesterday slammed the gubernatorial candidate of the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, in the 2007 elections in Sokoto state, Alhaji Maigari Dingyadi, over what it described as a deliberate attempt by the appellant to create judicial anarchy in his bid to sack the incumbent governor, Aliyu Wamakko, from office.

FORMER Military President Ibrahim Babangida said yesterday that he would remain undaunted even though he was prepared to keep to the elements of the Consensus Agreement of the Mallam Adamu Ciroma led Committee that ex-vice President Atiku Abubakar as the preferred candidate for the north.

The Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation yesterday put the blame of the loss of Osun State by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on former President Olusegun Obasanjo who the GROUP blamed for mismanaging the party’s fortunes in the South West.

GOVERNOR Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola of Osun State has promised to redirect the course of governance in the State in the direction of human and social development of the people after what he claims to be seven and a half years of directionless administration.