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The recent meeting of the National Executive Committee, NEC, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, almost turned violent following the threat by a former governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff to beat up a national leader of the party, Bola Tinubu.

Mr. Sheriff exploded midway into the meeting, raining abuses on Mr. Tinubu and threatening to slap the former Lagos State governor.

But for the intervention of the some party leaders attending the meeting, including a former Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari and a former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, the former Borno Governor, almost made real his threat, sources at the meeting told PREMIUM TIMES.

The APC NEC meeting, which was held at the partys headquarters in the Wuse 2 District of Abuja, was convened last Monday to discuss some pressing issues in the party, including the impending inaugural ward, local government and state congresses as well as a national convention.

The membership of the partys NEC includes all members of the National Working Committees, NWC, Board of Trustees, BoT, former presidents, vice presidents, governors and their deputies who are members of the party, and leaders of the party in the National Assembly.

Mr. Sheriff is a member of the organ in his capacity as a former governor and a leader of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, which last year merged with the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Congress for Progressives Change, CPC, and a section of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, to form the APC.

He was the Chairman of the ANPP Board of Trustees until the merger. On his part, apart from being a former governor, Mr. Tinubu is a respected leading light of the countrys main opposition party.

At the end of the meeting, the APC NEC fixed May 24 for its first national convention. It also fixed April 5 for the ward congresses while the local government and state congresses will hold April 12 and 23 respectively.

Our sources said Messrs. Sheriff and Tinubu clashed when the meeting began discussions on the congresses and convention.

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The recent meeting of the National Executive Committee, NEC, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, almost turned violent following the threat by a former governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff to beat up a national leader of the party, Bola Tinubu.

Mr. Sheriff exploded midway into the meeting, raining abuses on Mr. Tinubu and threatening to slap the former Lagos State governor.

But for the intervention of the some party leaders attending the meeting, including a former Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari and a former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, the former Borno Governor, almost made real his threat, sources at the meeting told PREMIUM TIMES.

The APC NEC meeting, which was held at the partys headquarters in the Wuse 2 District of Abuja, was convened last Monday to discuss some pressing issues in the party, including the impending inaugural ward, local government and state congresses as well as a national convention.

The membership of the partys NEC includes all members of the National Working Committees, NWC, Board of Trustees, BoT, former presidents, vice presidents, governors and their deputies who are members of the party, and leaders of the party in the National Assembly.

Mr. Sheriff is a member of the organ in his capacity as a former governor and a leader of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, which last year merged with the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Congress for Progressives Change, CPC, and a section of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, to form the APC.

He was the Chairman of the ANPP Board of Trustees until the merger. On his part, apart from being a former governor, Mr. Tinubu is a respected leading light of the countrys main opposition party.

At the end of the meeting, the APC NEC fixed May 24 for its first national convention. It also fixed April 5 for the ward congresses while the local government and state congresses will hold April 12 and 23 respectively.

Our sources said Messrs. Sheriff and Tinubu clashed when the meeting began discussions on the congresses and convention.

It was gathered that the during the discussion, the APC National Chairman, Bisi Akande, who was presiding over the meeting nominated himself and the National Secretary, Tijjani Tumsah to serve as chairman and secretary respectively of the National Convention Committee, NCC, which would also oversee the conduct of the congresses.

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Source: Blic, Tanjug, Veernje novosti

BELGRADE -- The Progressives (SNS) are "close to the decision" to form a government only with parties of national minorities, writes a newspaper.

This cabinet will also reportedly be made up "mostly of non-partisan experts."

According to the Veernje Novosti daily, the SNS leadership is unlikely to go for a new alliance with the Socialists (SPS), or forge a new one with Boris Tadi's NDS - instead, its main partner will likely be the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM).

If SNS leader Aleksandar Vui opts for this scenario, such a coalition would have an overwhelming majority of 164 MPs in Serbia's 250-seat parliament.

According to the daily, it is possible that Vui, as future PM-designate, would offer cabinet positions to "undisputed names from certain areas." In this context, former minister and former Governor of the National Bank of Serbia Kori Udoviki is mentioned as somebody the SNS would "gladly see as minister of economy."

The newspaper says that top SNS officials have already spoken "in principle" with Udoviki and also with Ivan Vejvoda about their possible engagement in the new government - "but there is no agreement yet for any of them to become ministers."

According to the article, another former minister who could once again join the cabinet is Goran Piti.

Udoviki told the daily Blic on Thursday that she has not yet discussed a ministerial position with anyone. "A lot of people have called and asked about it and I told everybody that there has been no discussion about it. I have not yet received any invitation, or any specific offer," she stated.

VIENNA -- Serbian and Austrian president Heinz Fischer and Tomislav Nikoli warned on Thursday about the consequences of introducing sanctions against Russia.

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Published: Thursday, March 27, 2014, 8:55p.m. Updated 6 hours ago

In a March 23, 2014, New York Times editorial, Paul Krugman discusses a hot topic being pushed by progressives and Democrats in the media, on liberal blogs, at union halls, at political rallies and even on the floors of Congress. The topic? Income and wealth inequality.

I wasn't even aware that wealth and income inequality are two different things.

But I learned from Mr. Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, that income inequality is the salary gap between rich and poor. Wealth inequality, I'm paraphrasing here, is excessive income generated from investments and inheritances (non-salary income).

Liberals and progressives, such as Krugman, Nancy Pelosi and President Obama, love this issue. After all, inequality and class warfare go hand in hand. What better way to fire up the base ahead of an election season that looks rather dismal coming on the heels of ObamaCare failures and foreign policy embarrassments?

They portray income and wealth inequality as an issue of fairness. But, I ask, what is fairness?

Of course income inequality exists. Take my story as an example.

I am a reliability engineer by trade. My job is to find and fix problems with products to create happy customers and reduce warranty costs for my company.

The value of my services is probably worth more than those provided by a store clerk or a fast-food worker. But on the flip side, a brain surgeon provides much more value than I do especially to his ill patients.

Job value is, for the most part, directly proportional to salary. More value equals higher wages.

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