By Jemi EKUNKUNBOR From a very early age, it seems that life natural carved her path for her. As a child she drew on any surface, it was a passion for her. Although she could have followed other paths in the arts department, the pull for fashion was like a calling. And so she studied […]

President Goodluck Jonathan did not give $9,000 to PDP delegates for their votes. That is authoritative. But, some people, from shady sources including, perhaps, donations from some international oil companies and beneficiaries of inflated contracts combined with his campaign organisation to give out real American dollars to delegates. The least given, from my own sources, was $9,000; some received as much as $20,000.

In the past weeks, primary elections and voter registration have dominated national discourse. Not even the assassinations in Borno State that saw the felling of the All Nigeria Peoples’ Party, ANPP, gubernatorial candidate, Fanami Gubio, and six others; plus the seemingly intractable Jos impasse could relegate electioneering to the background.

A waist line of more than 31 inches for women and 35 inches for men is overweight and highly prone to degenerative diseases like diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure, obesity, high cholesterol etc.

So what is the best way to say ‘I Love you? One thing’s for sure, it certainly isn’t cheap. Around the world we spent a total of… ….wait for it……. $30 billion on Valentine’s Day celebrations 2009! I kid you not, Google it.

Did you set New Year’s Resolutions? So many of us were excited to start 2011 with new energy and focus. Yet, we are into the second month of the year and for some reason, many of us aren’t making the progress we had hoped for. Could it be that there is something you aren’t aware of holding you back?

MR. Adeolu Adeleke, ex-Speaker of Oyo State House of Assembly and now Director-General, Senator Rasheed Ladoja Campaign Organisation, speaks on political developments in the state.

ELDER statesman, Obi (Senator) Nosike Ikpo, who is among the eminent Deltans that absolved former President Ibrahim Babaginda of blame in siting the capital of Delta State, carved out of the defunct Bendel State, in 1991, in Asaba, added another dimension to the raging controversy, last week, when he told Sunday Vanguard that any Anioma (Delta North Senatorial District) indigene that votes against Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan in the April polls is voting for the enslavement of the Anioma race.

DELTA State Commissioner for Orientation and Communication, Chief Paulinus Akpeki, in this interview, argues that Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan has been fair to the three senatorial districts of the state in the distribution of social amenities.

These are not the best of times for the nation’s judiciary. Last week, the news broke that the Court of Appeal President, Justice Ayo Salami, had rejected his promotion to the Supreme Court by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu.