kidnappers who abducted a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Elder Tes Sorae, last Sunday, yesterday made contact with the family members, demanding N100 million as ransom.

I had a rare opportunity to interview the highly celebrated political scientist and author, the Chicago-born Professor Francis Fukuyama on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 during his visit to Nigeria as a guest lecturer at a conference organized by Muregi Associates.

The bombing of the United Nations building in Abuja by a suicide attacker (it was clearly a suicide attack) has resurrected the South South People’s Assembly, SSPA, or at least some of its elements.

Governor Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State yesterday solicited support and prayers from traditional and religious leaders in the task of nation-building.

A disclaimer is appropriate at the onset of this piece; I am not the one who said Obasanjo has 49 necks; no! The copyright belongs to Senator Francis Arthur Nzeribe.

Biafran advocate Chief Uwazurike and 280 of his associates spent the Sallah holidays in prison having been detained on their way to the venue of an award ceremony for their champion, Dim Emeka Ojukwu. Their bail application comes up for consideration today. A positive response from the court could lessen the palpable tension in the Southeast.

CROSS River State Resident Electoral Commissioner Mr. Mike Igini, has said that to stem the current spate of bombings in the country to stop, Nigerians must shun ethnic and religious sentiments.

THE ongoing reconciliation exercise of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, came as huge relief to many of us, particularly those of us who believe that just one person has been saddled with governance in our state.

Ekiti State Government has denied directing anybody or group to collect money on its behalf from farmers as a condition to benefit from its agric programmes

Silence, they say, is golden.Silence means consent. A combination of these would make the power of the unspoken word very great. Most times, particularly in politics, those things you refuse to say come out louder than the spoken, or rather, the advertised ones. Yes, the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, was enraged by the facts on ground at the time the Port Harcourt conference was coming up. But they went a bit far.

Kaduna State Government, yesterday, imposed a curfew on Kafanchan following continued tension in the area, even as four persons including two women were reportedly killed during a reception for the state’s Deputy Governor, Alhaji Yero Ramalan.

IT is an irrefutable fact today that Abuja and Lagos stand outas Nigeria’s two most important cities. Abuja as the federal capital of the Nigerian federation is the bureaucratic hub of the country. It is the head of Nigeria from which all major policies and administrative measures concerning the entire federation flow.

THE Chief Medical Director, CMD, of Bingham University Teaching Hospital in Jos, Dr Stephen Yohanna yesterday called for special security arrangement for the hospital following resumed hostilities in the capital city.

THE Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, yesterday warned that all persons without genuine mission to the nation’s 22 airports will henceforth be arrested and prosecuted.

The Department of State Service, DSS, yesterday paraded two alleged accomplices who worked in concert with one Mamman Nur, who has been declared wanted by the Service to carry out last Friday’s suicide bomb attack on the United Nation’s House in Abuja which claimed 23 lives.