President of the Franco-Nigerian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mr. Marcel Hochet, has said that France was committed to further boost the business partnership between her and Nigeria in bringing greater development to the country.

Senior Special Assistant on Research, Documentation and Strategy to President Goodluck Jonathan, Mr. Oronto Douglas, has said that the president had proven that he had the capacity to make positive changes in the nation, despite his short stay in office.

SENIOR Staff Union of Colleges of Education in Nigeria, SSUCOEN, has cautioned the Federal Government of the dangers inherent in its intention to scrap all Colleges of Education in the country.

THE Benin National Congress, BNC, a Bini socio-cultural organization, weekend lamented what it described as the lack of Federal Government’s presence in Bini Kingdom.

SENATOR Yisa Braimah, representing Edo North Senatorial District in the Senate, weekend, in Benin, explained that the move by the National Assembly to include in the amended Electoral Act a provision that would make all elected members of the National Assembly automatic executive members of their respective political parties was borne out of the need to deepen the democratic process in the country.

The People of Delta South senatorial district of the state have been urged to queue up behind Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan in the re-run election coming up within 90 days as ordered by the Appeal Court to enable him complete his second term in office as was the case of Delta Central district.

LESS than six days after Prince Sam Obi took over as Acting Governor of Delta State, he is having his first crisis management test-case with a brewing emergency in Ughelli North Local Government Area over the installation of a new Ovie (king) within Agbarha kingdom.

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GOVERNOR Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has warned that if the much talked about electoral reforms failed to come into fruition before the 2011 general elections, Nigerians would mobilize to resist any attempt to rig the elections by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The Yoruba Unity Forum, an umbrella group for Yoruba people, is scheduled to meet on Thursday, November 8, at the residence of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, in Ikenne, Ogun State.

THE National President, Association of Ndi-Eze Ndi-Igbo in Diaspora, Eze Nwabueze Ohazulike, has attributed the spate of kidnaping and other violent crimes ravaging the South-East zone to the long neglect of the region, widely acknowledged as producing the bulk of the nation’s wealth.

The Niger Delta special security forces, the Joint Task Force codenamed Operation Restore Hope have raided a militant camp allegedly operated by one Keiti Sese also known as Commander Nomukeme (mad man) in Forupa community on the Atlantic fringe of Bayelsa State.

UNDETERRED by the Appeal Court ruling for a rerun of the governorship election in Delta State, members of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Warri South, Warri South West and Warri North local government areas have assured that Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan will come out victorious in the election.

AHEAD the 2011 general elections, a Coalition political leaders in the countryled by four state Governors, former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and the former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Audu Ogbeh, yesterday, accused the PDP of running the countryaground since 1999.

FORMER Chief whip of the senate, Senator Rowland Owie, yesterday, said that the recent move by the National Assembly to include its members into National Executive Council (NEC) of their respective political parties would help in deepening democracy in the parties.