By Ndahi Marama

MAIDUGURI — The Borno State Commander of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), Dr. Wale Ige, has said the unique geographical location of the state, bordering the three countries of Cameroon, Chad and Niger, makes drugs trafficking thriving business in the state, adding that, this is evident in the magnitude of [...]

By Aliyu Dangida

DUTSE —  THE Jigawa State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), has directed authorities of seven boarding primary schools in the state to establish clubs and societies in their respective schools.

Chairman of the board, Alhaji Sani Abdullahi, who gave the directive in a statement signed by the board’s Public Relations Officer, Malam [...]

By Enyim Enyim

Onitsha — The African Democratic Change(ADC) will today hold its state congress in Awka, to elect its flagbearer for the 2010 governorship election in Anambra state.

A statement by the national publicity secretary of the party, Mr Anayo Arinze, said each ward in the state, was expected to nominate one delegate, while [...]

By Aliyu Dangida

DUTSE —THE Jigawa State government has directed all the 27 local councils in the state to hasten and pay contractors all money owed them to the tune of over N500 million with immediate effect,  Commissioner for Local Government in the state, Alhaji Nasiru Umar, has announced.

The Commissioner who made this known [...]

By Oboh Agbonkhese

In a bid to challenge the Federal Government’s inability to provide stable electric power supply and the failure of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua to declare state of emergency on the power sector, a developmental pressure group, Concerned Citizens of Nigeria (CCN), is set to organise a mass rally at Maryland junction in [...]

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) yesterday dismissed the Federal Government’s amnesty as lacking integrity, even as it nominated a team of mediators to negotiate with government over the disarmament programme.

By Chidi Nkwopara

OWERRI— Over five thousand loyalists of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) stormed Owerri, Imo state capital, in solidarity to this year’s Igbo Day celebration organised by Ohaneze Ndigbo.

Members of the group, who wore and displayed Biafran insignia, including the Biafran flag, were led by [...]

By Laja Thomas

A group, Anambra Democratic Initiative (ADI), has condemned the handing over of INEC nomination forms for the February 6, 2010 Anambra Governorship election to the Chekwas Okorie’s faction of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), regardless of subsisting  court judgment, which upheld Okorie’s expulsion from the party.

In a statement by the [...]