TAM DAVID-WEST DIES AT 83, AS BUHARI MOURNS.

Tam David West

A consultant virologist, David-West was also a social critic and author. He served as Commissioner of Education in the old Rivers State, and was Minister of Petroleum and Energy under the General Muhammadu Buhari military regime. He also served as Minister of Mines, Power and Steel under Gen. Ibrahim Babangida regime.

Reacting to the news of his death, President Buhari, in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media, Femi Adesina, expressed deep sorrow at the passage of David-West, whom he described as his “ally and friend’.

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Dragging Buhari To Court' ll Stop Electoral Roguery-Anigbata

Alphonsus Nweze
Former People's Democratic Party (PDP), governorship aspirant in Anambra State, Chief Victor Anigbata, has said the decision by the PDP Presidential candidate to drag his All Progressives Congress (APC) counterpart, Muhammad Buhari, to Court will stop electoral impunity in the country.
Chief Anigbata said if Atiku and PDP had failed to go to Court, the next President of Nigeria after Buhari would commit worse impunity.

He  said " if he has refused   to go to  Court as some people canvassed, it means we have accepted the impunity.It is good to go to Court to register our protest. If not, the person who will come after Buhari will do worse thing".

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DELTA 2015: EK CLARK KNOCKS OUT ORUBEBE.

Elder Godsday Peter Orubebe

That the Ijaw born ex Minister for Niger Delta Affairs has been relieved of his post is no longer a news. What has become a new revelation is the role played by Chief EK Clark a fellow kinsman of Mr Orubebe in shoving him out of the federal cabinet.

Chief EK Clark, highly considered the grand dad of Delta state politics and one of the right hand men of President Jonathan was said not to have hidden his displeasure on Mr Orubebe and his corrupt tendencies as it concerns his role in the East West road contract.

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Leo Ogor, A Honorable and His Forth Term Ambition.

Rt. Hon Leonard Ogor Okuweh

The rumour has been going round for quite sometime now and as much as we try to waive it off, it keeps re-echoing. We are not saying that there is an element of truth in it neither are we saying that there is no iota of truth in it but we just can't keep it as it is our duty to sensitize the Delta electorates as the 2015 general election draws near.

The rumour mill has it that Hon. Leonard Okuweh Ogor, who is presently on his 3rd term in office is still interested in the lower house of the National Assembly.

According to a source who is very close to the lawmaker, the PDP deputy house leader who represents Isoko constituency at the house of representatives loves serving his people as he has been doing in the past 11 years and still going to do same in the remaining one year, therefore, he sees it as an obligation on his constituents to support his return to the lower house for a record 4th time.

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