The House of Representatives will tomorrow debate on an edgy motion that seeks to declare the winner of the June 12, 1993 Presidential Election, Chief Moshood Abiola, President, posthumously.

GOVERNOR Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State weekend justified the constitution of the caretaker’s chairmen for the 18 councils after the Court declared the election of erstwhile chairmen illegal.

Ekiti State Action Congress (AC) governorship candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, weekend, said a large movement was the only antidote that could stem the tide of electoral malpractices which have rubbished our hard-won democracy.

THE reason for the cancellation of President Umaru Yar’Adua’s planned visit to Bayelsa State was made known yesterday.

The woes of the nation’s university system, worsened by the ongoing strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), will from today be compounded as members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), begin a seven-day warning strike.

NO fewer than six governorship election petitions and related cases are pending before tribunals, Appeal Courts and Supreme Court over two years after the 2007 general election.

THE Lagos State Government has expressed its worry over the alarming rate at which its citizens consume agbo and paraga, both local concoctions brewed with water or local gin popularly known as paraga.

THE Presidential Committee on Amnesty and Disarmament has re-iterated that there is no condition attached to the release of the leader of Movement for the
Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Henry Okah.

*JV operations crippled, projects suspended

*MEND says amnesty is for criminals

*Henry Okah in high spirits, awaits release

*Clark asks Tompolo to accept amnesty

By Taye Obateru, Emma Amaize, Hector Igbikiowubo & Yemie Adeoye

LAGOS — THE Federal Government and multinational oil companies’ revenue losses owing to the spate of sabotage of crude oil pipelines [...]

By Demola Akinyemi

Ilorin — THE Prelate of the Methodist Church of Nigeria, Dr. Sunday Ola Makinde, yesterday, in Ilorin raised an alarm that Nigeria would continue to be in darkness of poverty, corruption, armed robbery and other vices of underdevelopment as long as
the Peoples Democratic Party rules the country.

Jos — The Federal Government has approved N400 million for the rehabilitation of some barracks across the country in the 2009 budget.

Chairman, Presidential Committee on Barracks Rehabilitation (PCBR), Alhaji Sani Gidado, disclosed this while on an inspection of Maxwell Khobe Barracks, 3 Armoured Division, Jos yesterday.

Gidado said the committee had some money from [...]