Selecting hosts for the Fifa World Cup is an important and competitive process as the tournament can have a significant impact on nations and the pride that comes with international success is difficult to match. But intense and sometimes unfair competition for hosting rights has continued to provide opportunities for corruption in the bidding process and the operations of the once revered organization.

Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, former Accountant-General of Lagos state has won the APC Lagos Primaries with 3, 735 votes.

BOMADI–A Niger Delta group, Delta Izon Democratic Mechanism, DIDM, has endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan and Mr. Nicholas Mutu, the member representing Bomadi/Patani federal constituency in the National Assembly for their re-election to continue in 2015.

Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti yesterday, unveiled a six-point cardinal programme which his administration would pursue with vigour.

Protesters yesterday stormed the state secretariat of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Osun state chapter, over alleged plan by the party’s leaders to impose candidates for the 2015 general elections.

LAGOS—Investors in the nation’s bourse lost N1.18 trillion in November following pressure caused by drop in oil price at the global market. Statistics from the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, for the period under review showed that the market capitalisation dropped by N1.18 trillion to close at N11.404 trillion against N12.579 trillion achieved in October.

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, yesterday, kicked-off the cleanliness and beautification competition among the 637 communities in the state, to revive the culture of village and community sanitation exercise.

Disturbed by the do-or-die attitude of politicians ahead of 2015 general elections, a coalition of 40 Igbo groups, the South-East Self-Determination Coalition, SESD, has urged politicians to desist from heating up the polity and preparing grounds for post-election violence and killings.

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, has said that despite the falling oil prices, his administration was taking necessary steps to bail out the economy to deliver services to Nigerians.

Jonathan, who spoke while receiving officials of General Electric, GE, in his office, asked foreign investors to continue to repose confidence in the ability of the Nigerian government to weather the storm occasioned by the global oil price crash.

WARRI — AMID growing anxiety over the downward slide in the price of crude oil at the international market, Delta Successor Initiative, DSI, has rolled out strategies on how Delta State guber aspirant, Sir Tony Obuh will create non-oil based wealth and open up the economic frontiers of the state.