By Emma Amaize WARRI—TENSION heightened in Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State, weekend, following a bungled attempt to wrestle the chairmanship seat from Chief Peter Nwaoboshi. Chief Nwaoboshi, who is the party state chairman,  has been engaged in a supremacy battle for many months running  with the Delta Elders, Leaders and Stakeholders Forum, led […]

Governor Chibuike Amaechi has enjoined security operatives in the state to take steps to consolidate the peace and security now existing in the state.

THE people of Ndokwaland, Delta State, have thrown their weight behind the candidacy of former Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Dr. Olisa Imegwu, who is aspiring for the House of Representatives seat in the 2011 elections.

A former external affairs minister,Chief M.T .Mbu, sparked off a controversy recently when he claimed that the Nigerian prime minister in the first republic, Alhaji Tafawa Balewa,died of asthma. The claim was disputed by those who held on to the view that Balewa had been shot dead by coup plotters who had abducted him ,among other political leaders of the country, on January 15, 1966.Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, a former minister of state in the ministry of transportation, did a two-part article on the controversy on the side of those who believed Balewa was killed by the coup plotters and his body dumped at a spot along Lagos-Abeokuta Road .

NOBEL Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has emerged national chairman of the newly registered party, the Democratic Front for a Peoples Federation (DFPF).