PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan is a modest man. This reflected in his 2010 achievements. He, however, went off the mark when he awarded his administration pass marks on these results.

While nominations for the state Assembly elections are going on in all the local government areas of Akwa Ibom State, Mr Ekong Sampson, representing Mkpat Enin in the state House of Assembly, Mkpat Enin council boss, Mr. Mfon Nkantion, Council Secretary, Mr. Ubong Inyang, Mr Imowo Udobia, all aspirants in the state House of Assembly election and others are currently cooling off in Police net.

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has said that it was in close talk with the Italian government on operational collaboration towards effective anti-money laundering, global drugs and crime control.

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.