REspected action governor of the old Midwest Region, Brigadier Samuel Ogbemudia, is one of the sterling lights of achievers in public office. His performance as a military governor between 1967 and 1975 stirred the feverish agitation for his return as civilian governor of the now defunct Bendel State in 1983. Ogbemudia also held some senior positions at the federal level during the military hiatus, and at the return of politicking in 1998, was one of the conveners of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Edo State and remains a member of the Board of Trustees of the party

We cannot develop our industrial base if we are bent on patronising imported goods. What I am going to do to be very specific, is from time to time, I have meetings in Abuja and I am going to put it on the table; I am actually working on a presentation which I intends to make to the Federal Government.

THE Defence Headquarters, yesterday, said the man who specialised in supplying fuel and food to terrorists was nabbed in the early hours of Sunday at Daban Shata in the suburbs of Baga Borno State.

Rivers State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has told the state Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC, that any attempt to proceed with the planned local government elections scheduled for May 23, amounts to an open disrespect to the court of competent jurisdiction which had ordered that status-quo-ante be maintained, adding that doing so would be futile.

TRACKING the Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr Adewale Omirin’s was a Herculean task but Vanguard eventually tracked him down to one of his hideouts in the Southwest from where he was able to speak on the issues with Governor Ayodele Fayose, the threats against him and his colleagues and the alleged impunities of the governor