MEMBERS of Enugu State House of Assembly have denied ever endorsing former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, for the forthcoming primaries of the People Democratic Party, PDP.

Renowned technocrat and political leader, Chief Abel Ubeku, yesterday, said he had not endorsed Chief Ovie Omo-Agege of the Republican Party of Nigeria, RPN, for the January 6, gubernatorial rerun election in Delta State.

THE Federal Government, yesterday, made good its pledge to seek the assistance of foreign bomb experts to get to the root of New Year Eve bomb blast at the Mammy Market of the Mogadishu Cantonment, Abuja which claimed four lives and injured several others as United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, agents are already on their way to the country.

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Angry reactions have continued to trail the New Year eve bomb blast in Abuja, as all the respondents to Vanguard’s inquiry described it as “dastardly, unpatriotic, criminal, senseless and condemnable”.

ON Christmas eve, riots broke out in Jos, after blasts that have so far claimed 84 lives. Every month last year, there were killings in Jos or surrounding villages. Every such incident in Jos is religious, a clash between the two major religions and attempts at reprisals by the losing side in a former encounter.

Nigeria Football Federation at the weekend instructed the State Security Services to arrest any individual parading himself, as the chairman of the Nigeria Premier League board.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Delta State, has invited the 14 gubernatorial candidates cleared for the January 6, re-run in the state to a crucial meeting, today at Asaba.

Nigerians have become nonchallant over the years about the process and outcome of our Nations annual budgets. Indeed in the past three decades or so the most outstanding feature of our budgets has always been the glitz and razmattaz which accompanies the annual ritual of budget presentation.

Because of it’s extensive coastline and tropical climate, Nigeria has the potential to develop a diversified ecology for a range of commercially viable varieties of fish. The economic appeal behind fishing is tremendous, considering the secondary and tetiary enterprises it can generate.

Notwithstanding the challenges that bedevilled the microfinance bank industry in 2010, microfinance banks’ operators are optimistic that 2011 would be a year filled with better business opportunities as a result of the reforms by the regulatory bodies.

Last week, the Corporate Governance code of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), which limits the tenure of banks ‘directors to 12 years consumed another banking titan, Mr. Oba Otudeko, and three directors of First Bank Nigeria PLC.

IT was a bad New Year day for some over 1,000 Nigerian pilgrims performing the 2010 pilgrimage to the holy land in Israel as the Israeli authority, Saturday, shut its border against those entering the country from Egypt over a bomb scare which turned to be a false alarm.

THE Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, has disclosed that it would spend N17 billion on education in 2011.

The decision of the National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to cancel the Ward Congresses held in Adamawa State on December 28, 2010, and its decision calling for another congress today is threatening to set the state on fire, with accusing fingers being pointed at Governor Murtala Nyako as the brain behind the cancellation, having lost out.