As the controversy surrounding calls for President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2011 polls rages, ex-militant leaders in the Niger Delta have faulted the Northern elders’ call for adoption of a zoning formula, describing it as unacceptable.

AN explosion occurred, yesterday, at the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC’s office in Warri, Delta State, causing fresh panic in the oil city.

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A militant kingpin and bomb specialist who identified himself as the “Udumegun of Niger-Delta” today detonated a bomb at the Niger-Delta Development Commission (NDDC) office in Warri, Delta state, causing fresh panic in the oil state.

THE 36 State Governors, after a marathon meeting, Sunday night, reached a consensus over whom to support for the post of Vice President.

Super Eagles Technical Adviser, Lars Lagerback, Monday, named Nigeria’s 30-man provisional squad for the World Cup with the inclusion of two home-based players.

A MAJOR confrontation is brewing between the Lt. General Theophilus Danjuma (rtd) led Presidential Advisory Committee, PAC and former President Olusegun Obasanjo over what is considered as the latter’s undue pressure on President Goodluck Jonathan on who becomes the nation’s Vice President.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is piling pressure on President Goodluck Jonathan to look in the direction of Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State, Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State and Alhaji Muktar Shagari, deputy governor of Sokoto State in picking his deputy.

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, in Katsina, declared that he lacked words to express his personal feelings over the demise of his former boss, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.

Contrary to speculations that President Goodluck Jonathan refused to attend the burial ceremony of his immediate past boss, late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in Katsina State because of a soured relationship between him and the Yar’Adua’s family , it has been revealed that Jonathan’s absence at the burial was purely on religious ground.

WORLD leaders, notable Nigerians and the masses, yesterday, bid late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, a final farewell as he was interred in his family compound in Katsina, capital of Katsina State.

In line with the Nigerian constitution Acting president Goodluck Jonathan took oath of office and became substantive President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

AFTER five months of a deadly encounter with precaditis which took him away from public life, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua last night gave up the ghost.

AFTER eight hours of grilling by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, the former Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, was, yesterday, granted an administrative bail.