Mr. Vincent Oludare Obielum is the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Oludare Obielum Nigeria Enterprises, a printing outfit located in Surulere area of Lagos.

Purely a northern agenda, the move is to ensure that the major opposition political parties go into next month’s presidential election on a solo run – without an alliance. This move is hinged on the expectation that the Congress for Progressive Change, (CPC); Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN); and the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), would secure massive victories in their respective spheres of influence, leaving the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), possibly without a simple majority or even the constitutionally required 25 per cent votes in at least two-thirds of the states of the federation.

From their hospital bed, one could feel their agony as they struggled to talk. They are victims of the bomb blast which rocked the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, campaign rally in Suleja, Niger State.

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The group was formed by some private individuals who felt it is high time Nigerians change the mindset of believing that the nation should do something for them before they could do anything in return for the nation. Their approach has been through crusades and town-hall meetings.

INDICATIONS emerged, Tuesday, that the Minister of Works, Senator Sanusi Daggash did not tell all the truth to the Nigerian public following his claims that contracts for the rehabilitation of the deteriorated Wharf-Mile 2-Oshodi carriageway in Lagos State had been awarded.

WHEN 31-year old Dr. Enoch Adejare Adeboye stepped foot into a derelict building housing what was then known as The Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, what was playing in his scientific mind is better imagined.

THE workers’ long journey to the N18,000 minimum wage, which the Senate passed into law on Tuesday, February 22, started long before the late President Musa Yar’Adua, on July 14, 2009, through the then Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Alhaji Mahmud Yayale Ahmed, inaugurated a tripartite Presidential Committee on National Minimum Wage, headed by Chief Justice Alfa Modibbo Belgore

ALL is not well at Nigeria’s premier social club, the Island Club, Lagos. A deep-seated battle for the control of the lever of power has divided the once famous and united club into at least three camps.

At a time when all should well set for the April elections, the political class is again living its folly to the fullest Presently, there are about 50 cases in court, a plethora of exparte orders and interlocutory injunctions to boot, underhanded tactics of blackmail by politicians and a polity yet to fully recover from the shenanigans of pro and anti-zoning elements. This report takes a look at the undercurrents in the polity and concludes that with just two months to the general elections, the political class would need to conduct itself in a matured and less combustible manner, hoping that the judiciary would not be a willing tool in the yet unfolding macabre drama called Nigeria’s elections

The story is about how President Goodluck Jonathan is trying to manage the embarrassment that the Ogun State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is creating as a result of the double lists of candidates for the April general elections. It is also about the resolve of Governor Gbenga Daniel who is pitted against former President