CONTRARY to speculations that the South-West was also rooting for the position of National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, following the distortion of the zoning formula of the party by members of the House of Representatives, strong indications emerged yesterday that the zone has finally lost it to North East.

GROUP Managing Director, GMD, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Engr. Augustine Oniwon, has warned that it was not going to be business as usual in the corporation as the corporation had embarked on transformation that would lead to growth of the petroleum industry. He vowed that he will not supervise the collapse of the petroleum industry, rather “we will supervise the growth of an industry that is not only self-sustaining but one that would boost the economy of the country.”

THE Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, has issued a two-week ultimatum to political office holders and top public officials who failed to appear before it during the verification exercise of their income and assets to do so or face the wrath of the law.

Ikechukwu Uche has pledged to fire in the goals that will propel the Super Eagles to qualify for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations.

EIGHT principal officers of immediate past administration of Adebayo Alao-Akala in Oyo State are being qustioned by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences, ICPC, to ascertain their involvement or otherwise in the N8.5billion allegedly mismanaged by the administration.