-The INEC has decided to appeal the judgement of an Abuja Federal High Court that five state governors would run for elections in 2012 instead of April 2011.

I was in Abuja last week with my nose to the ground as usual and to get in touch with scouts in various ministries when this story came out in the Peoples Daily, a paper most people don’t read but which carries a lot of interesting news. And, the news popped out of several. The Ministry of Petroleum, as my readers must know by now, is hot bed of spies for International Oil Companies, IOCs, and unpatriotic Nigerians ready to sell Nigeria to their paymasters. I quickly got in touch with a few people who confirmed that it is true that the ministry has started to spend money meant for the implementation of a bill that has not even been passed.

THE workers’ long journey to the N18,000 minimum wage, which the Senate passed into law on Tuesday, February 22, started long before the late President Musa Yar’Adua, on July 14, 2009, through the then Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Alhaji Mahmud Yayale Ahmed, inaugurated a tripartite Presidential Committee on National Minimum Wage, headed by Chief Justice Alfa Modibbo Belgore

Senator Anietie Okon is a member of the President Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Council. In this interview, he bares his mind on some national issues ranging from the former President Obasanjo campaign in 1999 to that of Jonathan.
He also chides the North for being an apostle of zoning just as he denies that Obasanjo was a product of zoning.

John Obayuwana is the managing director of Polo, the exclusive agency in Nigeria for some of the finest Swiss watch and jewellery brands such as Vacheron Constantin, Piaget, Chopard, Baume and Mercier, Montblanc, Rado, Technomarine and Balmain. The company which commenced business in Nigeria more than a decade ago has, over time, assumed the leading position in the luxury-medium level watch and jewellery market.