ACTING President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, told the BBC he had neither seen nor had “sustained discussion” with ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua since November 26 last year.

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, declared former Delta State Governor, Chief James Onanefe Ibori wanted over an on-going investigation into some allegations of official corruption and money laundering.

ACTING President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, said the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commision, INEC, and many of its current commissioners would not conduct the 2011 elections in the country.

AFTER several unsuccessful attempts by a Nigeria leader to personally meet with an American President, which many believed would have averted Nigeria’s recent listing among terrorist countries by the US, Acting President Goodluck Jonathan last Night met with the President of the United States, Mr Barrack Obama.

Former military ruler, General Ibrahim Babangida declared yesterday that Nigerians “don’t want people who we will doubt whether they are actual leaders”.

FORMER military President, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, today (Saturday), in Benin City, declared his intention to run for the 2011 Presidential election.

Contrary to claims by some clerics who visited ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua last week that the President is recovering and will soon return to his post, Africa’s finest heart surgeon, Professor Martin Anthony Aghaji, has explained why President Yar’Adua recovery from his illness is very slow. He also gives an insight into why the former Kano state governor, Alhaji Abubakar Rimi died.

DESPITE the orientation on acceptable practices in the conduct of cabinet members, staged at Wednesday’s meeting of the Executive Council of the Federation, EXCOF, three of the ministers came late to their first public function in the State House yesterday.

THE Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, handed down a riot act to the newly appointed ministers, just as he gave directives to them on business of governance.

SET to make a mark within the next one year, Acting President Goodluck Jonathan is to head the nation’s moribund power industry; even as he has concluded plans to unveil new initiatives aimed at improving power supply in the next few days, in the reconstituted Federal Executive Council, yesterday.