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GOVERNORSHIP candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, says his government will construct a light-rail system to unknot the traffic gridlock in Ikorodu and connect the

AS the countdown to the 2015 elections draws near, President Goodluck Jonathan’s kinsmen have advised him to ensure that members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Bayelsa State are in one accord.

WHEN Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary-general, was in Abuja last week, he urged all presidential candidates and parties to rise above the personal and debate the issues that matter. But

Re-visioning continuity in Lagos THE forthcoming governorship election in Lagos State is surely arousing the curiosity of most Nigerians for a number of reasons. It presents an opportunity to further test

THE other day, the vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, held a media parley in Lagos. The discussion, organised by the First Friday Group, was

MY fellow Nigerians, 2015 is not only ringing a bell in the nation’s polity because of the general elections associated with it, but it would also present a golden opportunity to redefine

FORMER Lagos State two-term governor and the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has been given thumbs up as an authentic Yoruba leader for his incredible

THE threat by the opposition political parties to ‘expunge’ the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from Taraba State in the forthcoming polls may have begun to gain ground. This manifested the

THE importance of education to human beings and the development of society has been recognised all over the world. The relationship between education and development is well-established such that education is a

THE rumour of his planned defection to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had been agog in Ondo State long before it materialized on the October 2 last year, but each time it