Those who voted massively (PDP and non PDP members) for President Jonathan would, no doubt, would somehow unhappy with the names being rolled out by the media on the composition of the Federal Cabinet. If the list is approved by the Senate, the President should be seen as a shrewed politician and a party loyalist, and not what many of his supporters would have preferred.

The weigh in ceremonies of the wrestling event was held last night at the Civic Centre in Port-Harcourt as competition rolls off the ground today.

TWENTY hours after proceedings on the floor of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly were disrupted over the composition of the House Standing Committees, the legislators may have resolved their differences as the Speaker Hon Nestor Binabo last Wednesday denied any knowledge of bickering among members.

The plan to create a new 26-nation liberalised trade zone for Africa, spanning the length of the continent from Cape to Cairo, could open up more possibilities for South-South cooperation that would benefit Africans.

Reflecting the impact of the limit on sale of autonomous foreign exchange to bureaus de change (BDCs), the naira for the first time this year, appreciated by 202 kobo this week at the official foreign exchange market as following 50 per cent fall in demand.