Senator Smart Adeyemi yesterday won the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, senate primary election for Kogi East Senatorial district. Senator Adeyemi beat three other aspirants in the rescheduled primary that was deferred partly on account of judicial intervention.

If the crisis rocking the foundation of Nigeria’s football eventually leads to a ban from the world’s football governing body, FIFA, Nigerians have been told not to lose sleep over it because it would be a blessing in disguise.

Perhaps, Muhammadu Buhari, the ever confident presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, did not have the bigger picture in sight when he was quoted as saying that the merger talks between his party and the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, would be sealed during the week.

Mohammed Shaba Lafiaji, former governor of Kwara State and a member of the PDP National Electoral Panel in this interview answers questions on the on-going registration exercise and agrees that the extension is necessary to ensure everybody votes during the elections.

The Yewa/Awori people in Ogun West Senatorial District appear to be not confident of producing the next governor of the state after the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, picked Senator Ibikunle Amosun to fly its flag in the April election.

Number 45 Owolabi Street, Okota, Lagos is a one-storey building that leaves no clue about its inhabitants.

The dramatic nomination of Senator Usman Albishir as the Yobe State gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP during the recent nationwide primaries of the party is indeed remarkable. Albashir beat the veteran PDP leader of the State, Alhaji Adamu Maina Waziri to the coveted ticket.

The violence and killings in the North East flank of the country took a more frightening dimension, yesterday, after unknown gunmen killed the ANPP governorship candidate in Borno State, Engineer Modu Fannami Gubio, and six other persons including the younger brother of Governor Ali Modu Sheriff, Alhaji Goni Sheriff, in Maiduguri.

The remains of Sports Vanguard Golf and League anchorman, ever-smiling Richard Animam will be interred today at the Kobape cemetery in Abeokuta.

A phrase that has been swept in by the current developments in our political life is “internal democracy”. No pause was needed to decipher its meaning. It was so explanatory. It blew to shreds the assumption that accepted democratic practice, which normally includes the decisions of any group as a function of the will of the majority, was mandatory in all circumstances. It may be so made to appear outside a political party, especially when several parties are in contention, but it does not have to hold when decisions were made within each party.

After playing some great matches here Lucas Neil says he will leave Qatar with not only wonderful memories but also great confidence that Qatar will dazzle the World in the 2022 World Cup that they will host the world 11 years from now.

Chief Peter Nwaoboshi, the Chairman of the Delta State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP was emotionally and physically drained as he settled down for an interview in his Transcorp Hotel room in Abuja three Fridays ago.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has said that the chairman of Biliri local government, Gombe state, Mr. Rabenson Zebulum Wasa was arrested in connection to a multi-million naira fraud case for which the council boss has been under investigation since December 2008.

The Independent National Electoral Commission has extended the on going registration by one week following the amendment of the Electoral Act 2010 by the National Assembly on Wednesday.

Five persons said to be on their way to participate in the ongoing voter registration died in a boat mishap in Beyelsa State.