When former President Olusegun Obasanjo superintended over the sharing arrangement of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the period 2007-2015 during the twilight of this reign, the South-East geo-political zone emerged the clear loser. For the first time in the political history of independent Nigeria, the zone could not find a foothold in the protocol list of five topmost positions in the country,... 

  The battle line has been drawn between the two major political parties in Nigeria, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its major opponent, the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, for the soul of Lagos State, and if possible, the entire South-Western region. For political watchers, the unfolding political scenario is a pointer that at present the battle for Lagos is openly between the ACN and PDP as other... 

  When recently President Goodluck Jonathan, while canvassing for public support and goodwill for himself in the forthcoming April presidential election, announced to stakeholders in the oil and gas sector that the long awaited Petroleum Industrial Bill, PIB, would be passed into law before May 2011, many Nigerians received the news with broad smiles and utmost optimism, though foreign investors may not have found...