Mikel nominated for EPL award

Mikel Obi will battle Swansea striker Wilfried Bony, Sadio Mane of Southamp­ton, as well as Alex Song from West Ham for the best African performer in the EPL for the month of December.
Giving details, New Af­rican Soccer’s Awards Di­rector and CEO, Tunde Ad­elakun stated that the choice was a difficult one, given the busy schedule of games in the EPL in December.
“We had varying and diverse opinions from our followers, and this is under­standable,” he said, “given the many matches that were played in December and the involvement of a high num­ber of Africans.”

Enyimba places $1.2 million on Udoh

Nigeria Profes­sional Football League vice-champions Enyimba have placed $1.2 million price tag on Super Ea­gles invitee Mfon Udoh.
Several teams in North Africa and Europe are in­terested in the attacker’s signature, having put himself in the shop win­dow during the 2014 sea­son.
Having netted 23 goals, he earned his place in the history books as the high­est goalscorer in a single season.

Ararume, Eze, others know fate today

Going by the guidelines of the Independent Nation­al Electoral Commission regarding the conduct of the 22015 elections, all the political parties are expected to submit names of their governor­ship candidate today.
This simple exercise of name sub­mission should not have raised any dust, but for the controversies sur­rounding the processes that threw up a few candidates in some states, espe­cially under the umbrella of the ruling Peoples Democratic party (PDP).

Cross River 2015: PDP holds the aces

At the inception of the Fourth Republic in 1999, Cross River was a two-party state. The two dominant political par­ties were the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Peoples Party (APP), which later became the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and subsequent­ly merged with other parties to form the All Progressives Congress (APC). In fact, there was a balance of influ­ence or power between the two parties, in terms of the quest for the control of the soul of the state. At that time, while the ANPP produced 12 members of the House of Assembly and the speaker, the PDP had 13 members as well the gover­nor, Mr. Donald Duke.

Imo 2015: Araraume vows to reclaim mandateImo 2015: Araraume vows to reclaim mandate

Those who only read in history books the good old days of politics with Nnamdi Azikwe, Obafemi Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello drawing huge crowds, needed to be in Imo recently to relive those glorious days. This is not about renting crowds but real and touch­ing. It was exciting because the crowd was not only genuine but ecstatic.

Borno guber: Indigenes express concern over choice of candidates

Indigenes of Borno State resident in the South West region of Nigeria, known as the Yerwa-Oodua So­cio Economic Society, have expressed concern over the choice of gov­ernorship candidates representing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bor­no State.

JTF arrests alleged killers of 6 soldiers, recovers cache of arms

The Joint Task Force (JTF) named Op­eration Pulo Shield has arrested five suspected pirates believed to be behind the attack on a JTF fibre boat and killing of three soldiers.
Six soldiers had been killed in a space of 72 hours by suspected pirates at San­ta Barbara River and Azag­bene community.