The newly appointed members of the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, at an emergency plenary session in Abuja has suspended the special concession granted to Bayelsa State for derivation fund from three oil wells.

The controversy that has trailed the appointment of caretaker committees for the recently dissolved 23 local governments in Benue State has forced Governor Gabriel Suswam to shelve plans to constitute the third tier of government in the state.

THE tempo of politics in Delta State changed, in the last 48 hours, especially for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, following reports that President Goodluck Jonathan would be flying in from Abuja to drum up support, Tuesday, in Warri, for the former Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, the party’s gubernatorial candidate in Thursday’s re-run.

I had intended this week’s column for my readers, especially those I cannot reach on phone or by mail. I had wanted to use the space this week to wish all of us a greater 2011, sportswise.

Arc Roti Delano is the President of the Association of Consulting Architects of Nigeria (ACANigeria). A former Honorary Secretary of the Nigerian Institute of Architects (NIA), Arc Delano who is also the managing director of FMA (Femi Majekodunmi& Associates) in this interview, spoke on the invasion of foreign architecture and the rampant incidents of buildings collapse in the country.

THE Hardball column on the back page of THE NATION newspaper of December 13, 2010, was as much a broadside against the police high command as it was an ill-informed disparagement of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, near Jos in Plateau State.

THE worried visage after his tenure as Governor of Delta State was brusquely terminated by the Court of Appeal last November was missing on the face of Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan on New Year day when he spoke in an exclusive interview with Vanguard at his Warri residence.

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr Idi Hong, said on Sunday that Chief Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, currently in a London hospital, was no longer “in grievous danger.”

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday extended till January 31, the deadline for banks’ customers to update their bank accounts

ALMOST on a daily basis one year ago when Nigeria’s Umar Farouk, the so-called crotch-bomber, put Nigeria’s name on the international terror list by his failed attempt to bomb an airline on Christmas day in faraway America, Jos, the once-peaceful city in the centre of the country, erupted in violence.

Dr Ade Dosunmu, until recently was the Director General of NIMASA, a federal government maritime agency. He is now aspiring to fly the flag of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the 2011 governorship election in Lagos. In this interview he discloses why he is the right man to govern Lagos. Excerpts:

Labour Party, LP Candidate for the January 6 Delta State governorship re-run polls, Olorogun Abel Edijala has promised Deltans innovative, purposeful and transparent leadership, if voted into power.

Bianca, the wife of Chief Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, has described President Goodluck Jonathan as a great leader.

THE national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday cancelled Ward ad-hoc congresses held in 12 local government areas of Delta State.

At least, five people lost their lives at Ido Ekiti, headquarters Ido Osi Local Government area of Ekiti State yesterday, when a tanker conveying fuel hit a ditch, while a residential house belonging to a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and state Coordinator of the Goodluck/Sambo Campaign Organisation, Chaief Femi Akinyemi was completely razed down.