AS the Oyo State Governor, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala presented a budget proposal of N144. 1 billion to the state House of Assembly, a substantial portion of the budget was devoted to education.

The furore generated by the decision of the Lagos State Government to concession the Lekki-Epe Express Way to a private firm to build and maintain the road has refused to die down.
Once again, residents of the area threatened to stop the State Government from collection of tolls along the express way. The state government, through LCC had recently announced its plans to commence collection of tolls on the newly constructed road from motorists beginning from January 3rd, 2011.

There was palpable excitement among the Peoples’ Democratic Party automatic delegates to the PDP Presidential primaries in the South-west following President Goodluck Jonathan’s meeting with them in Ibadan on Sunday.
That was the fourth meeting in three weeks that the President would be having with South-west delegates ahead of the PDP primaries.

This is a report of the behind the scene intrigues which led to the deal between President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, Chief Anthony Anenih and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, state governors. After heating up their National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting last Tuesday, the same people came back and within an hour resolved their differences and even adding an icing on the cake with the endorsement of Jonathan as the party’s candidate for next year’s presidential election.

THE late Chief Anthony Okotako Enahoro had a truly chequered political history that spanned well over sixty years. During this period, he took off from the Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe political camp as a member of the nationalist National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons, NCNC, (he edited some of the newspapers in the Zik Group, though he was never a registered member of the Zikist Movement) and moved to the pro_regionalist Action Group led by the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo.