Scores of All Progressives Congress, APC, youths have burnt their membership cards, flags and brooms, the party’s insignia, in front of Government House, Owerri.

The leadership crisis rocking the apex Igbo Socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, deepened yesterday as members of the Elders Council, EC, and other leaders drawn from the South East, Anioma and Rivers State set up a 19-member caretaker committee to run the affairs of the organization.

BENIN—THE Okowa Mandate 2015 has described as cheap blackmail and misleading, allegations of dictatorship in the politics of Delta State levelled against Chief Government Ekpemupolo (aka Tompolo), insisting that the former militant leader is a new breed democrat, who believes in equity and justice.

That is why he has been primed for defeat on February 28, 2015. Amaechi has a legacy of failed infrastructure, impunity, truncated judiciary, corrupt practices and poor contract governance, a legacy of destroyed legislative arm of government, a legacy of non payment of workers’ salaries and wastage of scarce Rivers State resources in the sponsorship of APC presidential campaign.”

The governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, Mr. Dakuku Peterside, has called on candidates of other political parties contesting the 2015 general elections to stick to issue-based campaigns rather than resorting to mud slinging and derogatory comments.

Senator Ifeanyi Okowa’s acclaimed victory in the governorship primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP may now look like the easier part of his long script to emerge the number one citizen of Delta State. The senator is now faced with the difficult option of choosing a running mate from at least two major ethnic groups in the state.

The Federal Government has approved the removal of Value Added Tax on all commissions on capital transactions two years after the announcement, shareholders in this interview speaks on the removal. Excerpts:

The shares of Nigerian Breweries Plc and Forte Oil recorded heavy transactions in the month of November to emerge the leading stocks in terms of price appreciation in the stock exchange.

Governor of Nasarawa State and governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Tanko Al-Makura, has named Mr Silas Agara as his running mate for the 2015 governorship election in the state.

EXACTLY one year after the demolition of over 1,000 houses belonging to residents of Atinporomeh Central, Aiyedotun and Ajagbe Community Development Areas, CDAs, in Badagry area of Lagos, allegedly by the Nigerian Police Force, NPF and their assigned contractors, the people have continued to lament the untold hardship they have been subjected to by the activities of the law enforcement agents.