After several postponements, the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, yesterday held its National convention amidst intrigues and manoeuvres among chieftains of the party. The convention was shifted by one day due to President Goodluck Jonathan’s use of the Eagle square for the declaration of his intention to run for the exalted office in 2011- kicked off by midnight of Saturday with accreditation of delegates of the party.

STAKEHOLDERS of Union Bank, weekend, called for an inquiry to ascertain the true value of the bank, averring that the bank was not distressed.

GOVERNOR Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State, has said the state government does not have the financial capacity to pay N800, 000 monthly salaries to medical doctors and urged health personnel in public hospitals in the state, who embarked on a strike action over one and a half months ago to return to work.

THE five National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members taken hostage in Omuma Local Government Area of Rivers State are still in the custody of their abductors.

The minister of Commerce, Jubril Martins Kuye, and his Finance counterpart,Olusegun Aganga, have been dragged into the raging war between Cement manufacturers and importers with the former accusing the two ministers of being enticed with mouth watering largesse to reverse Federal Government’s policy, which targets the protection of local manufacturers of the essential commodity.

The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control NAFDAC, Dr. Paul Orhii, weekend, escaped death by the whiskers when unknown gunmen launched an attack on him along the Makurdi-Abuja road.

THE candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, for next Saturday’s re-run election for Ekwusigo state constituency of Anambra State, Chief Johnny Brown Morah, has insisted that he would participate in the election, despite his party’s position that it would not field any candidate.

Suspected killers of the repentant militant, the late Soboma George, say they killed him because they could not carry out his directive to eliminate Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and the impeached deputy governor of Bayelsa State, Peremobowei Ebebi.

Former Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and former Chief Executive and Chairman of Cadbury Nigeria Plc, Dr Christopher Kolade, CON, weekend, said that if Nigerians continued to treat issues pertaining to national interest as was currently being done, then the future of the country is bleak, even as he carpeted public office holders who ignore their oath of office in their service to the nation.

Senate President, Chief David Mark Speaker, House of Representatives, Mr. Dimeji Bankole Govs. Baba Suntai (Taraba); Aliyu Akwe-Doma (Nasarawa); Ibrahim Idris (Kogi); Timipre Sylva (Bayelsa); Usman Dakingari (Kebbi); Patrick Yakowa (Kaduna); Sule Lamido (Jigawa);

VICE President Mohammed Namadi Sambo said yesterday that the emergence of President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2011 Presidential election would bring in a new Nigeria.

State Governors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday told President Goodluck Jonathan that they had paid the N11 million fee for his nominations.

Dr Olusola Saraki yesterday endorsed the bid of his daughter, Senator Ruqayyat Gbemisola Saraki, to become the governor of Kwara State on the platform of the PDP, but the state leadership of the party differed

Some elders within the People Democratic Party, (PDP) have warned that fielding President Goodluck Jonathan as the party’s presidential candidate may affect the peace and unity of the country. It will also destroy the ruling party.

POLICE authorities in Ondo State yesterday paraded four persons including a herbalist and those that allegedly killed the militant leader Soboma George in Port Harcourt last month.