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ANALYSIS
A call for assent on bio-safety bill
Sunday, 19 May 2013 22:25
When eminent Nigerian scientists, most of them with bias for pro-genetic modifications (GM) activities for development, gathered in Abuja recently, they did not just engage in scientific talks and nothing else.
Mr Brady Chijoke Nwosu is a former Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) governorship aspirant in Imo State. He is currently, the acting National Publicity secretary of Njiko Igbo, a pan Igbo political group that is geared towards addressing age long marginalisation of Ndigbo. In this interview, he says that for the sake of equity, there is need for two more states to be created from the South East. He also made a strong case for an Igbo man to be elected the President of Nigeria in 2015.
As Plateau citizens go to the polls today for the Plateau North Senatorial bye-election, the political atmosphere in the state has heightened with security seriously threatened in the area, following different antics of the political personalities involved in the race to outwit one another.
Hon. Lanre Mukaila Odubote is a member of House of representatives, representing Epe Federal Constituency. A member of many House Committees including Communications; Capital Market and Institutions; Media and public Affairs; Information and National Orientation; Population and Committee on FRSC. In this interview, he bared his mind on current national issues such as introduction ofN5, 000.00 note, Boko Haram insurgency, and constitution review. According to him introduction ofN5, 000.00 notes would encourage money laundering. He spoke with ABIODUN ADEWALE.
ONDO State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko has disclosed that nothing but expansionist tendency and the desire to annex Ondo State to their treasure-throve rather than any desire to develop it were the prime reasons why the leaders of the oppositions want to capture the state at all cost.
The Kano State Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso is a man of ambitions. He is secretly oiling his machines to launch a presidential bid in 2015. His aim is not just to emerge as the candidate of the party in his North-West region where he faces the Governor ofJigawa State, Dr. Sule Lamido, but also to face-off with incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan.
