POLICE officers from the Federal Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), weekend, arrested the traditional ruler of Arigidi Akoko, Oba Isa Olanipekun.

GOVERNOR Sullivan Chime and his supporters in Enugu State may dump the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and pitch tents with the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN as efforts to reconcile his political camp with that of the National Chairman, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo have failed.

GLOOM enveloped the political camp of the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP), gubernatorial candidate in last Thursday’s re-run in Delta State, Chief Great Ogboru, and his followers in the early hours of Friday when it became obvious that Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), has run away with victory.

Although developments in Nigeria and Egypt in recent weeks, particularly the attacks on churches in the countries, may not worth splitting hairs, the strategic importance must not be lost on scholars of the global march of the political face of Islam and the war against the invisible enemy.

The faction of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), loyal to Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State is contemplating its future within the party following fears that the governor and his loyalists would be denied tickets in the general elections.

Hopes of a diplomatic resolution to the lingering political crisis in Cote d’Ivoire appeared on the horizon last week when recalcitrant Laurent Gbagbo hinted of leaving office without preconditions.

LAST Thursday’s gubernatorial re-run in Delta State was not a perfect election, as has been confirmed by the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, but, it was unquestionably better than the nullified April 14, 2007 gubernatorial election, where many complained that they did not see the ballot paper, let alone exercising their democratic mandate.

Pa Hassan Sunmonu smells labour.
Check this out: President, Public Works, Construction, Technical and General Workers’ Union (August 1974 – December 1977); President, Civil Service Technical Workers’ Union of Nigeria (December 1977 – February 1981); President, Nigeria Labour Congress (February 1978 – February 1984); Director of Industrial Relations, Civil Service Technical Workers’ Union of Nigeria (March 1984 – October 1986); Secretary-General, Organisation of African Trade Union Unity (OATUU) (October 1986 till date)
Deputy Presiding Officer, African Union Economic, Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC) (September 2008 – present); and for effect, Establishment and completion of Kwame Nkrumah Africa Labour College, Accra, Ghana, (December 2010).

Now, shall we call him a LABOURER?

He wouldn’t mind. Probably, for effective communications with workers, he speaks Yoruba, English, French, Italian and Fante.

Simple by nature, Sunmonu turned 70 last Friday.

With the defection of six other governorship aspirants of the PDP in Plateau State to the Labour Party, Governor Jonah Jang is likely to have a smooth sail at the party’s governorship primaries.

Michael Aderohunmu, Managing Director of Dudu Investment and Business Research Centre Limited, analyses Nigeria’s economy in the post 2011 polls era.

Due to poor capacity utilisation in the steel industry and incessant cases of buildings collapse in the country, the Federal Government, through Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), is to adopt the British standard of steel manufacturing (BSI) for local manufacturers to expand their capacity and boost income flow in the economy through steel export.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter expects the 2022 World Cup in Qatar to be held in January because of the country’s intensely hot summers.
The tournament is traditionally held in June and July but temperatures in Qatar at that time of year can top 40C.

The decision of the Professor Akin Ibidapo-Obe Arbitration Panel to annul the election of Davidson Owumi as the Chairman of the Nigeria Premeir League, NPL has been faulted a by lawyer, Barrister Danladi Isaac.

Olympic wres tling gold medalist, Daniel Igali has won the House of Assembly primaries of the PDP in his Local Government Area in Bayelsa State.

As Nigerians hope to see a transformed new year in the area of sports, former Super Eagles coach, Adeboye Onigbinde has urged the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF to focus more on the problems that caused the country’s flop last year.