FOLLOWING the death of President Umar Yar’Adua in May 2010, Nigerians nursed apprehensions that the Nation might succumb to disorder, lawlessness, chaos and confusion, judging by the stiff posture of the buccaneering cabal that had selfish interests to protect, but pretended to be defending the sick President. God, in His mercy, spared the country a major explosion from that political crisis.

The Chairman of the Peace and Conflict Resolution Committee in Bayelsa State, Chief James Jephath, has lauded the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, over what he described as “the remarkable improvement” in the on-going voters registration exercise.

A CHIEFTAIN of the Great Ogboru Campaign Organisation, Sir Richard Odibo, has raised alarm over alleged mobilization of some Nigerians and non-Nigerians to register in the on-going voters’ registration exercise and in turn exchange the cards for money in Delta State.

A group of concerned youths in Agege and Orile Agege Local Government Areas of Lagos State have appealed to the leadership of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, particularly Senator Bola Tinubu to correct the anomalies in the party primaries election, which produced, allegedly, imposed candidates in Agege Federal Constituency.

The Ministry of Mines and Steel Development, says it has secured an 80 million-dollar grant for artisanal and small scale miners. The Minister, Mr Muhammad Sada, who received a World Bank team; the sponsors of the scheme on Tuesday in Abuja, said the grant was an additional finance to ease some projects in the sector.

The Federal Government, yesterday, said that the era of fighting and threatening was over in the Niger Delta region because the several years of neglect of the region would be addressed by President Goodluck Jonathan, who is the son of the soil with better understanding of the peculiar nature of the region.

By the time Princess Moji Tejuosho was the age her daughter is now, she had had her first child and had another on the way. Though her daughter Rao wants to settle down sometime in the future when the right man comes along, it is the prospect of work that seems to ring her bells.

AT least two retired major generals, traditional rulers, relations, close associates and well wishers attended the recent official installation of former chairman of the National Football Association

Mr. Dan Orbih, the chairman of the Edo State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in this interview dissects the performance of the governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole against the enthusiasm and expectations that preceded the popular union leader’s assumption of officet. Excerpts:

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