SENATOR Ikechukwu Obiora, representing Anambra South in the senate, admitted yesterday in Awka that the primaries that enabled all the legislators from the state to stand for election into the various legislative houses in 2007 was rigged.

Former Information Minister, Prince Tony Momoh, has emerged the National Chairman of Congress for Progressive Change, CPC. The National Secretary of the party is one of its founding members, Engr. Buba Galadima.

SENATOR Tesilm Folarin, who is standing trial for alleged felony and killing of the factional chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Oyo State branch, Alhaji Lateef Salako, last Thursday has filed his bail application.

Managing-Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation ,NRC, Mr Adeseyi Sijuwade, who was accosted by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday over allegation of over N40 billion contract scam was again interrogated yesterday by investigators of the anti-graft agency.

IN the old Western movies, there were usually the ‘good men’ who were on the side of the law or justice. On the other hand were the ‘bad men’ who were usually outlaws.

THE lingering crisis that led to the impeachment of the Amuwo-Odofin Local Government area chairman, Mr Ayodele Adewale, Wednesday, morning, got to a head, yesterday, with students of Lagos State University, LASU, storming the secretariate and chasing out all the council’s staff in an apparent show of solidarity to the impeached chairman.

THERE are strong signals that the days of Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo as the national chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, may have been numbered, considering the uncertainty surrounding the party’s primaries and the crises rocking many state chapters.

Austin Ogwuda reported from Asaba that election was peacefully held in the state capital, without any violence, although some eligible voters who lost their cards were disappointed because they were not allowed to cast their vote.

NOW that the latest election season is fully underway, I’m reminded of a very perceptive comment that my ex-husband (Dominic Midgley, an English journalist) made about the Nigerian political scene when he lived in Abuja some years ago.

The National Chairman of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Chief Bisi Akande, has read the riot act to party members on their conduct during the party primaries, saying a surveillance system had been established to monitor them and other officers during the exercise.

WHEN the disastrous bomb exploded on the 50th Independence Anniversary day, the incident was described as the handiwork of a maniac, or how would a sane person desire to wreck a multi_billion celebration in honor of the fatherland‘s freedom from the yoke of imperialism.

Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan is now leading in Five (5) local governments out of the 7 local governments so far declared by the INEC. He is trailed by Chief Great Ogboru of the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP in the results collated at different polling centres at the end of voting in yesterday’s Delta State Gubernatorial re-run elections.

IT is unthinkable that any one individual will go through a 10-month course and not pick up vital lessons that will guide him/her not only on the job but in life generally, so as to be a more productive citizen.

THE Maigari_led Executive Committee of the NFA sacked Davidson Owumi and not the Congress of the NFA. Those who were present said the matter was not brought up at anytime. So why did the Executive Committee smuggle in its position and make it look like it was a Congress decision?

CHIEF Great Ogboru of the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, was in early lead in the results collated at different polling centres at the end of voting in yesterday’s Delta State Gubernatorial re-run elections. Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was trailing him though with most of the results yet to be declared.