WHAT to expect in the 20011 election in Ondo State is gradually unfolding going by the eruption that swept off the youthful Speaker of the the State House of Assembly Hon Taofiq Abdusalam and other principal officers of the House.

NIGER State is generally believed to be the home of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) since the second political dispensation. In fact, it was the belief in 2003 and 2007 general elections, that all available political seats would be swept by the party in the state.

SENATOR Lee Meaba represents the Rivers South East Senatorial district in the Senate. He is currently Chairman Senate Committee on Upstream and also heads the joint committee on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB)
In this interview he spoke extensively on the capacity of the Nigerian Content Bill to transform the local and national economy of the country.

The chequered journey of Atiku Abubakar, the Turaki of Adamawa, in political rediscovery after the high wire battle of attrition between him and Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, his boss.

In a land where ignorance is blissful, it is foolish to be wise. This is the way to sum up the fate of Professor Maurice Iwu, the man whose job as the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is coming to an end. The search for angels in an environment ridden with evil doers is bound to be a heady assignment for an umpire in the first place but it requires integrity and courage to come clean and with raised shoulders.

Kazeem Afegbua, spokes person for General Babangida, explains in this interview, why Nigerians have in IBB a leader who can fill the void in the polity with his vast experience. He also insists that beyond the noise of the market place, the electorate would determine the 2011 presidential elections.

…the people of the state have now been able to appreciate and experience good leadership, good governance, transparency, accountability.

Even without reforming the electoral laws we have, the present laws can enable you to conduct elections that will be more than 70 percent acceptable

AS the 2011 election year draws near, political forces are beginning to realign positions and strategies in a bid of not only clinching their dream political positions, but also to continue to asserting their relevance before the voting electorate, and in all the political configurations.

DR. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, one time governor of Anambra State in this interviewwith Vanguard, bared his mind on burning national issues like the on-going constitution amendment exercise. He also threw more light on how the last gubernatorial election was peacefully conducted in Anambra State .

Chief Dan Osi Orbih is the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State. In this interview, he speaks on Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s attacks on Chief Tony Anenih and the happenings in Edo PDP.

It is no longer news that Nigeria with several battalions of its troops spread across the world especially in troubled spots like Darfur, Liberia, Sierra Leone, is the fourth largest troop contributing nation in the world.

The web of intrigues being woven around President Umaru Yar’Adua’s state of health are becoming rather complex. From his departure from the country November 23 last year, his actual whereabouts, his controversial broadcast to BBC, his odd return to the country February 24, to how he is faring, the actual picture remains hazy.

The widely reported visits by religious clerics to ailing President Umar Yar’Adua has generated a fresh round of controversy over the status of his health. The Islamic clerics who went first confirmed that they met the President and told the nation that even though he could not talk, he prayed with them. They assured the nation that Yar’Adua would soon resume duty.

WILL Dr. Goodluck Jonathan run the presidential election in 2011? Or put differently, should Goodluck Jonathan just quit in 2011? These issues of ethical and political realism confront the Peoples Democratic Party and the Acting President in a political environment where dynamics of political interaction is devoid of ideological imperatives and ethical compulsions.