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The Federal High Court, Ibadan yesterday restrained the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State from presenting any candidate to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the April general elections based on the primaries held last December, pending the determination of a suit before it

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Elder statesman Anthony Eromosele Enahoro returned yesterday to Lagos – the city where he launched some of his landmark struggles.

It was not to rail against colonialists and bad governments, but to receive the residents' last respects.




Source: Exciting farewell for Enahoro

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Bola Tinubu

Some political interest groups in the Southwest are organising shadowy non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to write petitions against the national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

To actualise their intention to get him out of the way before the April general elections, they have been peddling false claims against him in their petitions to government agencies.




Source: ACN alleges plot by 'fake' NGOs  to set up Tinubu

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The Independent National Political Parties (INEC) is likely to de-register 20 political parties for failing to field candidates for the April polls. There are 63 registered political parties.



Section 78 of the Electoral Act 2010 gives INEC the power to deregister any party which fails to field candidates for elections.

The section states: "The commission shall have the power to de-register political parties on the following grounds- breach of any of the requirements for registration; for failure to win a seat in the National or State Assembly election."

The parties which failed to submit lists of candidates for the polls are: Action Alliance (AA), Advance Congress of Democrats (ACD), African Democratic Congress (ADC), Democratic Alternative (DA), Prof. Wole Soyinka's Democratic Front for Peoples Federation (DFPF), Democratic Peoples Party (DPP), Freedom Party of Nigeria (FPN), Justice Party (JP), Liberal Democratic Party of Nigeria (LDPN) and the Masses Movement of Nigeria (MNN).

Others are: National Action Council (NAC), Dr. Tunji Braithwaite's Nigeria Advance Party (NAP), New Democrats (ND), National Democratic Party (NDP), Nigeria Element Progressive Party (NEPP), National Majority Democratic Party (NMDP), Nigeria Peoples Congress (NPC), National Unity Party (NUP) and Progressive Action Congress (PAC).

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Kelvin Balogun is Coca-Cola Nigeria new CEO
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Our Reporter 03/02/2011 00:00:00

Coca-Cola Nigeria Limited has announced the appointment of Kelvin Balogun as the Company's Chief Executive Officer with effect from February 1. He succeeds Islay Rhind, who will be retiring from the Coca-Cola Company.

Kelvin, who becomes the first Nigerian Chief Executive Officer of Coca-Cola Nigeria, joined the company in October 1999 as Strategic Planning & Business Development Manager. In February 2002, he moved to East Africa where he held positions of increasing responsibility in Kenya, Tanzania and the Horn of Africa before assuming the role of Strategy Director for the Coca-Cola East & Central Africa Business Unit in May 2008 with responsibility for strategy development across 27 countries. Kelvin's last role in East Africa was that of General Manager for the East Africa & Mozambique Franchise, leading Coca-Cola's operations and market development in Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique.

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Nigeria's growing profile as the financial hub of West Africa, will be bolstered as Deutsche Bank, a leading global investment bank, hosts over 300 financial analysts, bankers and investors at its annual banking workshop in Lagos.

The week-long workshop will start on Monday. It is the second in the series of annual banking workshops Deutsche bank has organised to add value to investment banking operations in West Africa. It will be attended by financial experts from Nigeria, Benin, Cameroon, Ghana and Senegal, among others.

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday begged aggreived aspirants not to defect from the party.

Its Acting National Chairman, Dr. Haliru Mohammed, in a statement in Abuja, urged the aspirants to look beyond the April elections




Source: PDP begs aggrieved aspirants not to defect

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Former Lagos State Governor Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has dismissed as "another fiction" a Nigerian Tribune story that he is plotting against Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State for allegedly supporting President Goodluck Jonathan.

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Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan has urged the people of Delta State to make maximum use of the extension of the voter registration by coming out en-masse to register.

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Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola yesterday said the voter's card would not be a yardstick for the payment of workers' salaries.

Fashola said such a condition would be an infringement on workers' rights.

He said every worker is entitled to his or her salary at the end of the month, stressing that the salary was a legal contract which ought to be respected.




Source: Voter's card not yardstick for salary, says Fashola