The much awaited trial of six persons accused of complicity in the $ 180 million Halliburton scam could not commence yesterday as scheduled, as the Federal Government failed to produce the accused persons for arraignment before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.

CHAIRMAN of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, yesterday, said the greatest challenge facing the commission was the short time within which to compile voters register and conduct the polls.

By Kolade Larewaju THE crisis rocking Ogun State took a frightening dimension Monday as nine members of the 26 member House of Assembly suspended the Speaker; Mr. Tunji Egbetokun and immediately appointed Mr. Emmanuel Soyemi Coker as the new Speaker. Also suspended were the Deputy Speaker, Mr. Remmy Hazzan and 13 other members all belonging […]

THE race for the presidential seat is getting keener as the clock ticks. The front-runners are embroiled in a frenzy rat-race to outwit one another and gain mileage in every quarter. The leading aspirants under the banner of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and their supporters, weekend, took their campaigns to the United States of America, wooing the Igbo, during the World Igbo Congress, WIC.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Ebele Jonathan said, yesterday, he planned to eliminate constant power outage in the country by 2012 through the introduction of ‘revolutionary’ policies to tackle the plethora of challenges bedeviling the sector.

CROSS River State Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke, said yesterday, that all the 28 governors of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, were behind the President and would carry on with their support if he decides to contest next year’s presidential polls.

AHEAD of Saturday’s meeting of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the South West, to take a common position on whether to support President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011, some leaders of the zone, yesterday, threw their weight behind the President’s ambition.

AHEAD of formal declaration by President Goodluck Jonathan to contest 2011 presidential election, a campaign team headed by Vice-President Namadi Sambo and former Chairman of Board of Trustees, BoT, of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Tony Anenih, is already in place.

AS President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan gets set to declare his intention to run in next year’s presidential elections, the North is moving ahead to consolidate its decision on the choice of a consensus candidate.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is now stalled in preparing a time-table for next year’s election following the power play between the Presidency and the National Assembly over the amended 1999 Constitution.