Kaduna State Governor, Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, has asked those opposed to President Goodluck Jonathan’s 2011 presidential bid to stop the campaign as it amounts to challenging God.

VICE Chairman of Patani Local Government Area, Delta State, Mr Elijah Ologe, has promised to mobilize youths of the council for the re-election of Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan in the upcoming re-run election ordered by the Court of Appeal.

MANY Nigerians believe and truly so, that we are a static nation because those politicians who are leading us are not the ones we would have chosen if given the opportunity of a free and fair elections.

THERE is a sense in which we must learn to extend our gratitude to the Falcons. Their victory in South Africa is a statement on commitment and passion.

Kano State Commis-sioner for Health, Hajiya A’isha Isiyaku, has cautioned the public against “over consumption” of meat during the Sallah festival to avoid stomach disorders.

Workers of Plateau State House of Assembly, yesterday, locked out members of the House in protest against alleged stoppage of their wardrobe allowance and failed promises by the leadership of the House.

THE death of five children at the Jos University Teaching Hospital, JUTH, is a partial verdict on the state of our teaching hospitals, just refurbished at great cost and their supposed attainment of international standards celebrated with an embarrassment to the array of equipment that were brought into the hospitals without much attention to the relevance of the equipment and supporting facilities for them to work.

MYANMAR, formerly known as Burma (its natives are still known as Burmese), has hit the headlines big-time in the past few days because Aung San Suu Kyi, the globally admired Burmese civil rights activist, has just been released by the ruling military junta, having spent l5 out of the past 2l years under house arrest.

FIVE adhoc staff of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Delta State, were, yesterday, dismissed for operating with unauthorised fire arms and molesting the staff of the Corps and other members of the public.

HE was the pioneer Vice Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos State in 1998. Mr Gbolahan Qudus Folami is aspiring to run for the office of the governor of the state in 2011 on the platform of, the PDP. In this interview, he bares his mind on the internal crisis rocking the party at the state level and attributed the problem to lack of internal democracy.

Two-time governor of defunct Bendel State and now a Peoples Democratic Party, PDP leader in Edo State, Dr. Samuel Ogbemudia, speaks on the factional crisis in the state PDP and President Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential aspiration

She was crowned Miss Nigeria a few minutes before her nineteenth birthday. Lagos born Oluwadamilola Agbajor is the only child of her parents who hail from the Itsekiri part of Delta State.

The Catholic Archbishop of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province, Most Rev. Dr. Anthony J.V. Obinna, has charged Christians to brace up for a total war against political godfathers, who have turned evil fathers and parasites in various states.

CONTRARY to insinuations in some quarters that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ebonyi State, may lose the governorship to the opposition in 2011 general elections, the party has said it would not relinquish power to the opposition.

GOVERNOR Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, has praised security agents and the good people of the state for their cooperation in ensuring the smooth resumption of office of the caretaker council executives.