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Barr Clems Ezika
Barr Ernest Nwoye
Chief Chuba Egolum
Sen Ebenezer Ikeyina
Chudi Offodile
Hon Anayo Nebe
Mrs Obiamaka
Okolo Sunday Aghadi
Engr Ben Akah
Sir Emmanuel Mbamalu

SOUTH London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) plays a strategic role in London’s healthcare industry. It provides mental health services at more than 100 South London locations, including the Maudsley Hospital in Denmark Hill for thousands of clients.

LAST week, the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, ordered the oil and gas industry regulator, Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to crash the price of kerosene in a few days.

Everything about the secondary school dropout, self-confessed ex- armed robber and sea pirate from Ayakoromor community in Burutu local government area of Delta State, John Togo, who the Joint Task Force, JTF, on the Niger-Delta, placed a N10 million prize for anybody that gives useful information on his whereabouts, is surrounded by controversy.

You don’t need anybody to tell you that Professor B.I.C. Ijomah is a man of letters. On Tuesday, May 10 when Sunday Vanguard kept a date with him at his Agidigbo Avenue residence at Asaba, the capital of Delta State, the evidence was palpable. The renowned sociologist, who turns 75 in November, had lined up in the four corners of his expansive study mountain of books, ranging from sociology to history, politics and religion. Spotting a white upon white indigenous attire with a patch of grey hair on his head, the retired professor of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, who is neck-deep in the politics of Delta State, was a delight to chat with. He spoke on the Northern agenda to perpetuate the region in power and the recent killings in the North; the vision of the defunct South-South Peoples Conference, SSOPEC, which metamorphosed into the South-South Peoples Assembly;

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, may be stockpiling wood for another round of bonfire in the House of Representative with its zoning arrangement. The allocation of offices to the six geo-political zones have created a renewed bad-blood between the South-West and the South-East on account of the very dismal showing of the S/West zone in the National Assembly elections when compared to the S-East.

*As the nation is united in grief By Jide Ajani That afternoon, grief was served for lunch. But Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, the man who appears to be doing well with his charm, soothed and consoled the parents of the deceased. Not that he bought their grief with N5million (which was to be given to […]

For the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, and its presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, the results of the National Assembly elections simply poured cold water on the supposedly larger than life image that had been created for both the party and its principal. Worse, the presidential election did not produce the type of spark that the party promised – it has won one governorship seat. This is the inside story of how the CPC suffered its first initial set back which haunted it throughout the April elections.

The elections may be over but the politics of 2015 presidential election would shape the new zoning formula in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP – to an extent. In fact, the results from the elections last month have re-created the same politics of old in a new form. However, what would create for possible high combustion is the contestation that would ensue between the North and the South East zone over who succeeds President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015. This would create its own problem for the PDP. And in the wake of this, there would be a possible road show by the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, with a view to becoming more national political parties.

This report explores why South-West geo-political zone may not feature prominently in the emerging zoning arrangement of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. With the least number of legislators at the National Assembly, the zone is not solidly positioned to pitch for either the Speaker’s position or those of either the Senate President or Deputy Senate President. This is the emerging reality that leaders of the party in the South-West have to contend with. On a bigger scale, how would the PDP re-arrange its zoning formula to contain the plethora of disparate interests, while not hurting sensibilities in the run up to the 2015 elections.