The hospitality industry in Lagos State was expanded recently with the opening of Woodridge Hotel Royal. It is the newest addition to the Woodridge Hotels range, all properties of G.O. K. Properties.

Barely two weeks to the presidential election in the country, the Ondo State coordinator of Jonathan/Sambo Campaign Organisation, Rt. Hon. Taofik Abdussalam, in this interview, speaks on the chances of the president in the south-west and the north-west regions. The coordinator’s who is a former speaker of Ondo House of Assembly, also disagrees that the 12 year-rule of the PDP in the country is a collossal waste.

Democracy is good for Nigeria and Nigerians! But has Nigeria and Nigerians been good to democracy? Certainly not! But could be!
An opportunity would present itself via the elections beginning this Saturday.
Since 1960, when Nigerians succeeding in forcing the hands of the colonial masters, causing the lowering of the Union Jack for the Green-White-Green flag, the nation continues to grope in this seemingly endless search for credible elections expected to usher in leaders with the peoples’ mandate. A credible process has almost always been elusive.

Staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, are in a sort of frenzy in the run- up to the elections. For a commission that has promised Nigerians free, fair and credible election after several failed attempts at raising the bar of electoral excellence, the approach to the polls which some analysts have dubbed a litmus test for the chairman of the commission, Professor Attahiru Jega, must be taken with all seriousness.

The political parties have their manifestoes. But, that is where it ends. The manifestoes of the political parties have become no more than pieces of booklets meant to fulfill one of the conditions by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.