The political tension in Edo state is heating up every day and as expected there is bitterness between the ruling Action Congress (AC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.

FOR Mr. Benjamin Nnamdi Ekwueme, serving in the Imo State cabinet is not only a privilege but service to the people of his state. Ekwueme, an engineer, is Special Adviser to the Imo State Governor, Ikedi Ohakim, on Project Monitoring and Implementation, and was recently honoured by the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) with fellowship awards.

Chairman Senate Committee on Works, Senator Julius Ucha was in Ebonyi State recently and fielded questions from newsmen on his committee’s oversight function as it pertains to Nigeria’s roads; the dredging of River Niger and the constitutional review.
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Senator Francis Spanner Okpozo was a senator in the Third Republic and former Deputy Speaker in the defunct Bendel State House of Assembly. He is also the leader of Isoko Ethnic Nationality of Delta State. In this interview with Vanguard, he spoke on electoral reforms independent candidacy election rigging.

*’How Obasanjo hijacked ANPP, tried to take over DPP’ * ‘Speaks on life out of office, experience in school as student Dalhatu Bafarawa, immediate past governor of Sokoto State, in this interview, says the 2011 general elections  will be different with the emergence of  the new party, National Democratic Movement, NDM,  being promoted  by different […]

Some were offered N250million. I know the former Majority Leader, Honourable Abdul Ningi who was with us was offered N400million and Speaker Aminu Bello Masari, N500million

In all of these, our overall goal is economic development and in getting at that economic development, we have to put a few things down in terms of infrastructures and in this regard, we are talking about transportation: the airport, seaport, road and of course railway and talking about power, you cannot say we have not done anything because we are part-funding what the Federal Government is doing in terms of the independent power plant and we are also starting our own independent power plant in the state. We have done the necessary works and started on ground and in the area of ICT, we are already doing the basic programme in our schools, we have trained over 8,000 secondary school students in computer appreciation and even the workers too.

The tone of despair that rent the Sheraton Hotel venue of the gathering was not too unfamiliar with the announcement that eclipsed the country’s second attempt at democratic rule in 1983.

Is CNPP involved in the formation of the National Democratic Movement ( NDM) ?
The formation of National Democratic Initiative ( NDI) is an unfortunate development within the ranks of those who are trying to defeat the PDP in the 2011 general election and establish the foundation of a true democratic development for Nigeria.

LIKE few Nigerians who occupy sensitive public offices, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has been in the eye of the storm since he assumed office as Central Bank Governor. For carrying out an unprecedented cleaning of the augean stable in the banking sector, he received an unrelenting press attacks, at least for a while.

If we are not where we are supposed to be as a nation, it is because we have not set out to be there. I think we are where we are because this is where we have traveled to. So far, we have traveled to the level where we are able to preserve our sovereignty as a nation and as a member of comity of international nations. What I’m saying is that we have preserved our Nigerianess but what we are worried about is the content and quality of this Nigerian nation.

I said this earlier and it was misquoted by some press. But I still stand by what I said that PDP has no reason to rig election in Nigeria

In the heat of recent national controversy on immunity clause enshrined in 1999 Constitution, President Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua had expressed support for its removal. He , like most public commentators who are against the clause had argued that those who are protected by immunity clause should not be shielded from persecution if found criminally liable of any offence while in office.

PROF Itse Sagay is a legal luminary on constitutional matters. In this interview with Vanguard, Sagay faults the move by members of the House of Representative over plans to give them immunity. Excerpts:

“Northern Nigeria is a large and heavily populated country, full of vitality and promise. In such a large country there is inevitably a great deal of diversity, but in this diversity, as in your great country, lies our strength.