Battleground South West
A BATTLEGROUND is a place where an election will be keenly contested between two or more major political parties or their candidates. Of Nigeria’s three traditional “tripod zones” where the nation’s demographic ethnic majorities live – Arewa Muslim North, the food basket of Nigeria; Igbo heartland South East, the engine room of the Nigerian society; and Yoruba homeland South West, the landlords of the Nigerian economy – the hunt for votes between President Goodluck Jonathan of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and General Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressive Congress (APC), will be fiercest in the South West come 28th March, 2015.
Jonathan laments deplorable state of Enugu-Port Harcourt road
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said the Enugu-Aba-Port Harcourt Federal road deteriorated due to neglect by previous administrations in the country.
No quarrel with Rivers APC Chair —Tele Ikuru
PORT HARCOURT— Deputy Governor of Rivers State, Engr. Tele Ikuru, has denied allegations in some quarters that a major quarrel broke out between him and the state chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr. Davies Ikanya, over who should make the caretaker committee list in Andoni Local Government Area.
Travellers stranded as students shut down Kwale-Asaba Expressway over fees hike
UGHELLI—Travellers plying the ever busy Kwale-Asaba Expressway were, yesterday, stranded for over two hours as students of Delta State Polytechnic, Ozoro, Delta State, grounded all forms of vehicular movements along the Ozoro axis in protest against sudden hike in school fees by management of the institution.
NFF wants F/Eagles to win AYC
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has tasked the Flying Eagles to win the 2015 AYC in Senegal.
ECS captures 11 million workers
No fewer than 23,482 employers have keyed into the Employees Compensation Scheme, ECS, regarded as a major step towards implementation of social insurance aimed at, among others, rehabilitation of workers who sustain injuries at work and payment of compensation for permanent disability or death.
Widow hides husband’s corpse for three years
Policemen attached to Ojokoro Division in Lagos have arrested a 60-year-old woman and her two children for allegedly refusing to release the corpse of her late husband to his family members for proper burial, three years after his demise.
Wike makes empty threats —GTCO
Director-General of Greater Together Campaign Organisation, GTCO, Mr Victor Giadom, has described the threat by the governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, Mr Nyesom Wike, to make public the financial dealings of All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate, Dr Dakuku Peterside, as an empty threat.
Invasion of Lagos community by thugs, cops: Residents appeal to Jonathan, Fashola
OBY Nwakor, a fish farmer in Labora/Owode area of Ibeju-Lekki in Lagos, is among thousands of residents who were recently rendered homeless due to no fault of theirs. Nwakor moved to Labora community in 2008. With the little income he made from his farming business, he built a little house to provide accommodation for him and his family.
Mrs Akpabio takes campaign to grassroots
The grassroots-meet-the-women campaign tour of the wife of Akwa Ibom State, Mrs. Ekaette Akpabio, yesterday, recorded a huge success in Oruk Anam, Ukanafun, Etim Ekpo and Ika as the women of the areas assured the governor’s wife that their permanent voter’s cards, PVC, were all intact to vote PDP.
Nigeria High Commission, UK group hold asset mgt summit in Lagos
LAGOS—Following the successes of the last two summits in London, the Asset Summit Africa 2015 will be held for the first time in Africa at the Eko Hotels & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos on March 31 and April 1.
