Loyalists of ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua, especially those who had held sway since his November 23, 2009 departure to Saudi Arabia, are now fighting what may be termed the battle of a lifetime, following Wednesday’s assumption of office by Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as Acting President, while a PDP delegation led by its National Chairman, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor was billed to see the President last night in his Jeddah hospital.

NO fewer than 15 persons were feared dead Saturday morning in Port Harcourt when a high tension wire belonging to the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) gave way and landed on two commercial buses, electrocuting the passengers on the spot. The sad incident occurred around Oginigba, very close to Slaughter – Trans Amadi part of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area.

February 10, 2010, was a slight contrast from Wednesday, November 25, 2009. Unlike that morning in 2009 when the ministers did not know what to expect from a Goodluck Jonathan chairmanship of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, last Wednesday’s was different for many reasons.

The Alaafin of Oyo Kingdom and Permanent Chairman of Oyo State State Council of Obas and Chiefs, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, has kicked against the formation of National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria, saying it is unconstitutional.

The trial judge, Justice Mwada Balami who issued bench warrant against them had on December 11, last year declared all the four accused persons in the case wanted but later vacated the bench warrant on the 13th January, 2010 upon the application brought by the accused persons wherein counsel to the accused persons undertook to produce the accused persons in court on the next adjourned date being 22nd January, 2010.