By Emeka Mamah

Kaduna — A combined team of policemen and operatives of Operation Yaki in Kaduna, yesterday, sealed off the state secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), claiming that they had information that some people wanted to take over the leadership of the union by force.

The armed policemen, who stormed [...]

*Senate leader expresses fear over electoral reform

By Inalegwu Shaibu

ABUJA-The Minister of Finance, Dr. Mansur Muktar is to brief the Senate on the thrust and projections of the 2010 budget of the Federal Government, the Senate Leader, Senator Teslim Folarin said yesterday.

At a press briefing ahead of today’s resumption of Senate plenary sittings, [...]

THE Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will today resume negotiations in an efforts to find solution to the lingering face-off between both parties after about a month that the government walked out, Vanguard can authoritatively report.

The nation’s 24 banks may be pruned to 15 as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), gets set to release the auditing of banks not affected in the earlier exercise last month.

By Vincent Ujumadu

AWKA—Supporters of some of the governorship aspirants engaged their opponents in physical combat over allegation that money was changing hands while they were waiting for officials of the congress committee to arrive at the just concluded ward congresses of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra state, yesterday with some of the [...]

By Demola Akinyemi

ILORIN — Kwara State Deputy Governor, Chief Joel Ogundeji, has lamented that kidnapping has now become serious business in some parts of the country and urged church leaders in particular to rescue the nation from the hands of enemies of progress through fervent prayers and thought-provoking sermons.

The deputy governor who bared [...]

The Tinapa Shipping Line, which started operations Monday as a cargo vessel to serve the Tinapa Business Resort and neighbouring state, made its maiden voyage to the dormant Calabar Sea Port in Calabar, Cross River State.

WORRIED by the plight of indigent patients at the Accident and Emergency units of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), Governor Adams Oshiomhole, weekend paid the sum of N6.5million to offset their hospital bills.

Edo State chairman of the Coalition of Registered Political Parties (CRPP), Dr. Samson Isibor, was yesterday arrested by operatives of the state police command over alleged defamatory statements against Governor Adams Oshiomhole.

THE factional chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, Mr. Edward Sado, and the state youth leader of the party, Chief Francis Inegbeneki, yesterday withdrew their suit filed against the national leadership of the party at the Benin High Court.