LAGOS—A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship hopeful in Lagos State, Mr Owolabi Salis, has advised the party to allow President Goodluck Jonathan contest the 2015 presidential election under its platform, saying Jonathan going for a second term will perfect the nation’s democracy and diversity as a nation.

LAGOS — Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, Tuesday gave a marching order to the Office of the Public Defender, OPD, to take legal action against the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps NSCDC, for allegedly arresting eight residents of Ejigbo Local Council Development Area LCDA, whose wells were found to have been polluted by oil spill from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC pipeline in the area.

In this interview, the Deputy Governor of Benue State, Chief Steven Lawani, spoke on his relationship with Governor Suswam, and why he has decided to join the race to succeed him in 2015 and other nagging issues. Excerpt:

Kwara United and Warri Wolves have been directed to replay the Week 29 abandoned Glo Premier League match on Thursday, September 5 at the FIFA Technical Center, Abuja even as the Ilorin side were slammed a host of sanctions by the League Management Company (LMC) for the breaches that led to the non-completion of the encounter last Sunday.

Football Association of Malawi is comfortable with Calabar to host the crucial World Cup qualifier against the Super Eagles.

The call for a national conference, stability and security of the nation were some of the issues that came to the front burner, Tuesday, at the political summit organised by the Nigerian Consensus Group underway in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital.

Africa’s 400m record holder, Falilat Ogunkoya-Omotayo’s desire to raise men and women quartermilers who will break her and Innocent Egbunike’s records has received the backing of First City Monument Bank (FCMB) who has pledged financial support to next month’s Falilat Ogunkoya Athletics competition.

LAGOS — Lagos State Government, Tuesday, compensated five landlords whose lands were acquired by the government for the construction of the Dana Cenotaph in Iju-Ishaga, Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government Area of the state.

The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, has described the crisis rocking the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, “as God’s divine intervention to liberate the ordinary Nigerian from years of deprivation, repression and maladministration by a class that has held Nigerians captive.”

The erstwhile factional chairman of APGA, Chief Maxi Okwu surprised political watchers in Anambra State when he announced in Awka that Dr. Chike Obidigbo, one of the party’s governorship aspirants who could not make it at the screening level is the candidate of the party for the November 16 election.

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FOR those who read this column, I wish to recommend that the main story on the page preceding this be read first, and recall previous outings of this column on this issue, which is that of realistically jump-starting the Nigerian economy and kicking it, screaming like a new born-baby into the 21st century.

Mr. Bassey James, is Chancellor of Akpabio Centre for Leadership Development (ACLD) through which he aims to project lessons from Governor Godswill Akpabio’s legacies in Akwa Ibom State. He recently spoke to newsmen on sundry issues concerning Akwa Ibom and its leadership. Excerpts:

The global mobile subscription would hit 9 million by 2018 and Nigeria, South Africa among other African countries are major part of this realisation with current standing of about 781 million in mobile subscription.

IBADAN — MINISTER of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, Tuesday, in Ibadan, Oyo State, said the World Health Organisation, WHO, certification that Nigeria was now free from Guinea worm disease, will come in December.