FORTY- EIGHT hours after its conduct of the state and National Assembly primaries, the Edo State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria [ACN] yesterday released the result amid frustrations, condemnations and protests by party members who accused the leadership of the party of skewing the results to favour certain aspirants.

As the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday commenced the registration of prospective voters in the April general elections, the Chairman of Zinox Technologies Limited, Leo Stan Ekeh, has said that his company has delivered the full compliments of the direct data capture (DDC) machines to various offices of INEC across the 36 states and Abuja .

This is an exclusive report on how the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, leadership ensured that the presidential primaries of the party remained very transparent. What, however, was not factored into the scenario by some state governors and delegates was how transparent the scenario was going to be.

Getting eleven of Nigeria’s hip-hop stars under one roof wasn’t going to be an easy task. But I thought because they were all under Storm Records management, we could route them in for a photo shoot and feature. How wrong! It was a Herculean task! If it’s not South Africa today for one, it would be New York tomorrow for another. In the end, we decided to make do with the six stars available for our shoot. In my book, this is definitely a success story.

It is about 12 years now since any South Eastern State hosted the National Sports Festival (NSF) and this has compelled many sports enthusiasts in the region to wonder why it is so.

Primaries of the parties will have peaked by the end of this week. It was a rehashed of the parties. From Port Harcourt to Kaura Namoda; from Lagos to Maiduguri there were uprisings: in Lagos and, in Abeokuta; in Ibadan and Enugu.

Marlow finished that sentence in a way I can’t. But, as Nigerians again are now at dagger’s drawn over the recent election in Delta State and the first full election to be conducted under Professor Attahiru Jega, my heart bled. Ordinarily, the outcome should have provided another opportunity to say “I told you so.” But, the catastrophe that has befallen our nation far outweighs any feeling of triumph.

Recently, in this column, I wrote ‘Zoning: Where Justice Gumi Got it Wrong’ and, in which, in my lay opinion, I differed with the FCT High Court Chief Judge’s December 1, 2010, ruling on PDP’s zoning arrangement.

Chances of remarrying after a divorce might be slim, but some women are so lucky they even have third chances! A few weeks ago, Lilian, who has now got the hang of living with the intricacies of her husband’s shenanigans came to the house looking radiant.

THIS is certainly not the best of times for the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Assailed by fractious and bitter parallel primaries and struck by a gale of defection of notable stakeholders, across the states, to rival political parties, the PDP hierarchy has an onerous task at hand. It must mend fences, patch cracks and fissures on its walls, if it hoped to regain its apex height as the dominant political party.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday rolled out over 100,000 Direct Data Capturing Machines across the country to kick-start the registration of eligible voters that would be involved in the series of elections scheduled for this April.

Human beings in contemporary societies, like no other period in history, are so preoccupied with the rat race for material comfort that they tend to forget those simple things that make human life humane.

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, yesterday, formally flagged off the voter registration with the registration of President Goodluck Jonathan and members of his family at Otuoke in the Ogbia local government area of Bayelsa State amidst tight security.

At the dawn of the 21st century, Nigeria, only recently restored to democratic rule, had a promising economic outlook for the ensuing decade. After several years of sanctions stemming from the political misadventures of the Abacha regime, the international business community was ready to welcome her 150 million plus market back into the global economy.

Otunba Gbenga Daniel, the Ogun State governor and Ogun East Senatorial District candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the April polls, in this session explains why had no fears that President Goodluck Jonathan would clinch the party’s presidential ticket at Thursday’s presidential primary.