Getting this interview done came with its own peculiar circumstances. After ceaselessly speaking with Kayode Idowu, a colleague and Chief Press Secretary to Professor Attahiru Jega, national chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and agreeing on an appointment for Thursday, Sunday Vanguard landed in Abuja earlier that day only to be told the appointment might no longer hold. Shocking!

Federal character or zoning doesn’t favour anybody except the under-developed. A developed community wouldn’t mind who comes out as long as he is qualified to rule. We don’t need zoning. We don’t need federal character.

ORGANISERS of the northern political summit under the aegis of G20 (19 northern states and Abuja), yesterday, warned that the country risked a deeper crisis if the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, prevented Dr. Goodluck Jonathan from contesting the presidency in the 2011 elections on the grounds of zoning.

DECORUM was abandoned by public figures, yesterday, as the Speaker, House of Representatives, Mr. Dimeji Bankole, Ogun State Governor, Olugbenga Daniel and the Minister of Works, Senator Sanusi Daggash, engaged themselves in war of words at the site of the opening of the Ota Bridge along the Lagos_Abeokuta Express Way.

NATIONALChairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Attahiru Jega, yesterday, said what the commission needed to compile a credible Voters Register was N84 billion and not N74 billion as he earlier said

 By Bose Adebayo A 54-year-old  prophet / founder of Celestial Church of Christ, CCC, Messiah Parish,  Meiran, a suburb of Lagos, Prophet Olusola Oluwatuyi, was Tuesday afternoon, shot dead in his church during a meeting with a man, alleged to be a retired Police officer. According to eye witnesses,  the deceased, fondly called, Messiah by his members […]

THE Northern Governors’ Forum, yesterday, failed to reach a consensus on the contentious issue of zoning. However, the communiqué issued by the governors at the end of the meeting insisted that the 1999 Constitution did not bar any individual from seeking any office….

IT was a season of approval for the presumed ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan to contest next year’s elections as it received boosts from his South-South geo-political zone and the Kaduna State chapter of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday.

The Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufai has lamented the decay in the nation’s educational sector but assured that the Federal government is committed to addressing the rot in order to meet the educational needs of all Nigerian

INSPECTOR General of Police, Ogbonna Onovo, said, weekend, that at the last count, there were about 500 kidnapping suspects in Police cells across the country with many of them having confessed to the criminal act and others caught in the act.