EITHER due to mischief or naiveté, some prominent Igbos are trumpeting their support for the election of Goodluck Jonathan as the President of Nigeria in 2011 while calling for the ceding of the Presidency to an Igbo person in 2015.

President Goodluck Jonathan has directed the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to ensure speedy realisation of AOK refinery in Imo State.

IT used to be the Niger Delta with militants venting their anger on oil production facilities. Now the violence has shifted with three States assuming a perennial status as flash points. The incessant crises in Bauchi, Borno and Plateau have gone on for too long yet government makes excuses about them.

The new Director General of NIMASA, Mr. Patrick .Z. Akpobolokeni, recently spoke with a group of maritime journalists were he spoke on several issues ranging from the Cabotage regime, Coast guard, CVFF and a lot more. Godfrey BIvbere reports.

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, yesterday, called on the Federal Government to take urgent steps to address the Jos crisis, warning that the crisis poses a threat to the fragile unity of the country.

A policeman and two other staff of a firm in Port Harcourt, reportedly lost their lives, yesterday, on Trans Amadi Road, when gunmen attacked a vehicle conveying huge sums of money for the firm.

Chief Amechi Nwaiwu, SAN, is an Abuja based legal practitioner. In this interview, he bared his mind on several national issues, ranging from the controversies that has continued to trail the amendments effected on the 1999 constitution, as well as the propriety or otherwise of government’s keeping Nigerian students at home during the first two weeks of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, voters registration for the April general elections.

AND so, Evander Holyfield continues the strenuous march in his avowed mission to turn back the hand of the clock. It is a costly march for which every step taken forward is rewarded with two steps backwards for a man whose acknowledged warrior fighting instincts are not matched by any level of common sense.

WHILE confusion over the state of the list from Ogun State persisted, yesterday night, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, said all candidates had to wait for the final list to determine whose name was submitted by the political parties.

AHEAD the April general elections, former Deputy Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Chief Fred Omogberai, yesterday, raised an alarm over alleged plots by political gladiators to destabilize the state. He called for a security meeting in the state in order to avert bloodshed in the state.