STRONG indications emerged that the cold war between a political godfather and his son has reared its head again, following accusations and counter accusations between Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Senator Bala Mohammed. Their disagreement followed the governor’s claim that the minister hired thugs that stoned the president’s convoy in Bauchi last Thursday.

Danger was averted yesterday at the Abuja National Stadium during a Glo-Premier League Super 6 match as medics battled frantically to revive Flying Eagles defender, Izu Omeego who was eventually taken away unconscious to an undisclosed hospital.

RISING from an emergency meeting convened in the wake of President Goodluck Jonathan’s private visit to the Olu of Warri and Warri Council of Chiefs, a political pressure group, Delta Coalition for Change, DCC, has said that it would not be swayed by reports that President Jonathan promised members of the Warri Council of Chiefs that he will perform the ground-breaking ceremony of Ogidigben Export Processing Zone, EPZ, before the end of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan’s tenure.

This chronic health worker shortage that has prevailed in public hospitals over the years in Lagos and Nigeria as a whole has steadily gone from bad to worse.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, who is seeking re-election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, weekend took his campaigns to Borno State, the epicentre of the Boko Haram insurgency.

FORMER Deputy National Chairman (South) of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olabode George; erstwhile Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro and governorship candidate of the PDP, Mr Jimi Agbaje yesterday flagged-off the party’s governorship campaign lambasting the current state government of running a government without human face.

Some 18 days to next month’s general elections billed for February 14 and 28, the controversies surrounding the pasting of campaign posters and materials by the two major political parties in Lagos State, the All Progressives Progress, APC and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, continues unabated, given dramatic twists it has assumed.

Rivers State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate, Mr. Nyesom Wike, has formally presented his developmental blueprint, aimed at repositioning Rivers State for the advantage of residents of the state.

RISING from an emergency meeting convened in the wake of President Goodluck Jonathan’s private visit to the Olu of Warri and Warri Council of Chiefs, a political pressure group, Delta Coalition for Change, DCC, has said that it will not be swayed by reports that President Jonathan promised members of the Warri Council of Chiefs that he will perform the ground-breaking ceremony of Ogidigben Export Processing Zone, EPZ, before the end of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan’s tenure.

By Uche Onyebadi LAST week, I watched with intense attention as President Obama presented his annual State of the Union address to the joint session of the U.S. Congress. He did so with a sense of accomplishment reserved for seasoned matadors. There he stood on the presidential podium, gleefully reeling off layers of his administration’s […]

DELTA State Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Dr. Chris Ekiyor, yesterday, expressed concern over the inciting statements by those he described as misguided and disgruntled elements in the political class, against President Goodluck Jonathan and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

President Goodluck Jonathan has mandated Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State, relevant authorities in the Presidency and the Ministry of Petroleum Resources to fix a new date for the ground breaking ceremony of the $16 billion Export Processing Zone, EPZ project.

Peoples Democratic, Party, PDP, Enugu State, chapter, yesterday, raised alarm over alleged plot by unnamed political opponents in the state to embark on campaign of calumny against Mr. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, its governorship candidate.

The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has warned that a number of oil projects in the country are expected to suffer delays due to the continuous decline in crude oil price.

Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Dr. Eugene Juwah, yesterday, dismissed the allegation by Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fashola, that the Commission shut APC’s SMS platform established by his team to raise fund for General Muhammadu Buhari’s election campaign.