Armed robbers and kidnappers constantly hold the citizens hostage. An incredible exodus of notable person’s especially top professionals and business people has left the state and relocated to Abuja, Lagos, Enugu and other cities.

Armed robbery and kidnapping is not the only ill threatening the existence of the state, the people, towns and communities in Anambra State have resorted to prayers to save them from the siege, scourges, ravages and destruction by floods, soil and gully erosion and landslides that are annually ravaging the entire environment, lands and property, destroying human, animal and plant lives.

Corruption cost Arabs $1 trillion: report - Losses accounted for nearly a third of the total income earned by the Arab countries between 1950 and 2000:- Persistent corruption and other financial malpractices have cost Arab countries nearly $1trillion, which otherwise could have largely boosted the per capita income of citizens, according to a regional anti-corruption group.

The Nigerian Football Federation at a meeting with President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan today tendered unreserved apology to the President and the Nigerian people on the dismal performance of the country’s football team, the Super Eagles, at the World Cup appearance. They also informed the President of their decision to disband the team, and address the numerous shortcomings evident in the management of football in Nigeria.

The Nigerian government has reversed its decision to withdraw the Super Eagles from international competition until 2012, according to AFP. A spokesman for president Goodluck Jonathan announced the shock departure on Friday after Nigeria's poor performance at World Cup 2010 when they finished bottom of Group B with just one point. The absence would have seen the nation miss qualifying for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations.

Amidst strong opposition to President Jonathan Goodluck’s candidacy in the 2011 presidential elections from Northern political leaders, the President’s supporters are strategising to ensure he runs in next year’s election, despite the zoning hurdle.

Elombah.com gathered that leaders from the three zones of South-south, North-central and North-east at a meeting at the Abuja residence of First Republic Information Minister Chief Edwin Clark in Asokoro resolved to act as a counterforce to the meeting of the Northern Elders Forum.

The campaign train of former military leader, Ibrahim Babangida formally berthed in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital led by members of the kitchen cabinet of the deceased strongman of Ibadan politics, Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu, which included his wife, Bose and Hazeem Gbolarunmi.

This comes as Northern political leaders canvassing the retention of zoning are set to meet political and opinion leaders from the South-East.

The Second Republic Vice President Alex Ekwueme has said that rotational presidency should be maintained because, “If Yar’adua was alive he would have taken his automatic ticket as agreed upon.”  

In an interview with the BBC Hausa Service in London, the former vice president argued that he was part of the agreement that saw the reaching of the agreement of the rotational presidency during President Olusegun Obasanjo administration.