Dr Itekina Abel-Tariah is gunning for the governorship of Rivers State come 2011 on the platform of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN. He spoke to journalists recently on his ambition, Rivers politics and other issues.

HOW many people saw the German war monger who was trapped, fighting in one of those thick forests in Japan during the Second World War, which ended in 1945?

AS the Mallam Adamu Ciroma-led Northern Political Leaders Forum, NPLF, prepares to pick a consensus presidential candidate from the four top aspirants from the North ahead of party primaries, one of the contenders, Governor Bukola Saraki of Kwara State has pledged to accept the outcome of the Forum’s resolution.

TRADITIONAL rulers in Isokoland in Delta State yesterday advised politicians against making statements capable of inciting another ethnic unrest in the state, just as they drummed up support for Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan to continue as governor representing the South Senatotial district of the state.

National Chairman of All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, has said the country could conveniently pay the N18,000 minimum wage demanded by public servants in Nigeria.

THERE is no gain saying the fact that the crisis in most political parties today is their inability to practice internal democracy in the real sense of the word. And parties that have failed to practice internal democracy have had to pay highly for it.

EDO State governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has admonished religious leaders in the country to pray for the emergence of credible leaders in 2011.

NO fewer than six persons, including a pregnant woman, died in a fire incident that occurred in the early hours of Friday at Ruwan Safi community, located at the outskirt of Maiduguri, Borno State capital.

IT came like a bombshell to many Nigerians that Tuesday, November 8, 2010 when most electronic media announced the sack of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State by the Court of Appeal presided over by Justice Monica Dongban-Mensah in Benin City.

A coalition of 45 non-governmental organisations, NGOs, Rights Monitoring Group, RMG, has canvassed deployment of the military to assist the police in providing security for both voters and voting materials. National Coordinator of the group, Mr. Olufemi Akinbule Aduwo, was a member of INEC Anambra Governorship Rerun Election Observation Board.

The Labour Party governorship candidate in Delta State, Olorogun Abel Edijala, has said that the strategic alliance between the Labour Party and Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Delta State will deliver the state to the Labour Party in the re-run election, just as he has dusted his manifesto in readiness for a re-run election campaign.

ITSEKIRI residing outside Delta State have been told to endeavour to come home to participate in the voters’ registration exercise.

A bloody gun duel erupted in the creeks, yesterday, between regrouped militants and soldiers drawn from the Joint Task Force, JTF, with both sides allegedly suffering casualties suspected to be up to 15.

ASSURANCES from the National Assembly that 29 May reminds the handing over date resound in their emptiness.

WHAT is more, Governor Obi has increased the university’s subvention.
Following the on-going strike embarked upon by ASUU (South-East), this most Education-friendly Governor has jerked the pay of the lecturers by 50 per cent from N15 million to N50 million and now to N81 million.