Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dimeji Bankole, on Tuesday met Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and behind closed-doors inside the inner chamber of the Presidential Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos to beg for help. This comes as indication emerged that President Goodluck Jonathan is in possession of details of an EFCC investigation that exposed how Dimeji Bankole, his deputy, Usman Bayero

President Jonathan has Wednesday 30 June inaugurated the newly reconstituted Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa. Swearing in Professor Attahiru Jega as chairman and other new commissioners in the presence of Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Alhaji Yayale Ahmed, Ministers and top government officials,

Orji Uzo Kalu’s Progressive Peoples Alliance on Tuesday reacted to the defection of the Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, to another political party, saying the governor’s new party would not save him.

Observers are interpreting this to mean that Chief Theodore Orji  is doomed because the present Governor of Abia State, took oath of allegiance to Kalu twice at Okija shrine.

Chief Theodore Orji  at Okija Shrine

Elombah.com Correspondent was at the Nigeria@50 Summit that took place at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel, in Park Lane, London, W1K 7TN today. The summit, a privately funded enterprise under the umbrella of Business in Africa Events [BIAE] to "harness the celebratory spirit into creating opportunity for business development in Nigeria". The Chief Executive Officer [CEO] of BIAE, Christian Dozie Udechukwu put together the

Jega can actually be another Iwu unless he fights really hard to step out of his shadow. For if the president says he does not know Jega, who then recommended him?  Could it be Iwu himself whom the president wouldn’t have minded reappointing? This may appear speculative, but Jega must have been pushed by certain forces and Iwu’s input  in such critical decision of appointing his successor cannot be said to be out of place and therefore implausible

Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State has declared for the All Progressive Alliance (APGA) today. According to Abia TV and Radio stations, the Governor decamped to APGA as a “necessary step for Abia”. This follows several months of frosty relationship between Orji and his former party, the PPA led by the governors predescesor in Umuahia, Orji Uzor Kalu. Governor Orji had earlier expressed the intention to contest for second term in office,

 This lecture is about provoking informed debate about how to proactively prepare for Nigeria to be a major player in the 21st Century, and avert any doomsday scenario. I will argue that sustainable survival will depend on how urgently Nigeria reorganizes itself for a world with minimal dependence on oil and other natural resources.

My thesis here is that without realigning the incentive- sanctions regime, the talk about diversification of the economy will remain what it has been since the 1970s--- just a wish!

Impeccable sources from Umuahia, Abia State capital can confirm the embattled and desperate Governor TA Orji has hurriedly dissolved the State Executive Council with immediate effect to checkamate a planned embarrassment and mass resignation of the cabinet .

He fired all the commissioners on monday the 28th of june, retaining only the commissioners for works, who happens to be his cousin and the Attorney General and commissioner for justice from Ohafia.

The leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) is again troubled by the apparent lack of nationalism on the part of our political leadership by choosing to hold a two-day conference on Nigeria’s 50th Independence anniversary holding in London from today, Monday, June 28 to June 29, 2010.

Great /Nigerians and friends of Nigeria: The Federal Government has earmarked N10 billion for the 50th Independence day celebrations. As part of this profligate waste of funds there is currently a 2 day jamboree at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel, in Park Lane, London, W1K 7TN. There has been no press release on the purpose of this conference, or why it is being held in one of the most expensive hotels in one of the most expensive cities, 6000km from our nation’s capital