Alliance for Democracy, AD, is alleging a conspiracy by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to exclude it from the next election, saying it will bring a very grave consequence to the polity and the nation’s democracy.

CHIEF Ovie Omo-Agege, gubernatorial candidate of the Republican Party of Nigeria, RPN, in the just concluded re-run election in Delta State, yesterday, conceded defeat and congratulated Chief Great Ogboru of the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, for the strong and remarkable show he made in the election within the short time he returned to the political turf.

AS members of the crisis-ridden Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), in Ogun State go to the polls today to elect their standard flag-bearer for the forthcoming general elections, what is on the lips of residents of the state is whether the party would be able to overcome their problem or just go under.

The New Year is as good a time as any to make sweeping changes and while I really don’t have a resolution as such, there are noticeable changes that seem to be emerging from me rather involuntarily. I found myself changing in my attitude and disposition last year and it seems inevitable to embrace that change.

Sapele Renaissance has called on the Delta State and National Executive Council of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), to announce a new date for another ad hoc party delegate congress, alleging that the materials for the congress were hijacked by one of the aspirants.

Despite the fact that he was a missionary, he was bold enough to aver that: “The Jesus who came forward publicly as the messiah, who preached the ethic of the kingdom of God, who founded the kingdom of heaven on earth, and died to give his work final consecration, never had any existence.

Many patriots have of recent drawn attention to the need to trim down the cost of governance in Nigeria. We need to do so now because ours is probably the highest in the world, especially with the scandalous cost of legislation in the country.

In our march through time, we move from one life’s station to another. We acknowledge these movements in many ways.

Dora Akunyili turned a low profile job at the National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to a high profile one. She also went on to hold her own at the Federal Ministry of Information. She was one of the best known ministers of the realm. Before that, she had wanted to be a Vice-President of Nigeria.

Two five-year-old kids who had been quietly playing with their toys in the garden of a block of flats began to struggle for possession of a toy computer set. One of the boys was a cousin’s son, and we were sitting on a bench nearby, watching them.