By Tordue Salem

ABUJA — The young lives claimed by the Sosoliso plane crash at the Port Harcourt Airport in 2005 would have been rescued by an effective emergency management and fire service in place, Vice President Goodluck Jonathan said yesterday.

The vice president spoke at the first National Fire Conference and Exposition at the [...]

Awka—Justice Peter Olayiwola of the Federal High Court in Awka, Anambra State, yesterday adjourned to November 9, further hearing in the suit by Mr Ken Emeakayi,  challenging Professor Chukwuma Soludo’s candidature as the PDP flag bearer for the 2010 Anambra governorship election.

Olayiwola adjourned for ruling, on whether the court has the jurisdiction to entertain [...]

National Publicity Secretary of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), Chief Ben Onyechere says the claim by the Peoples Democratic Party’s National Chairman, Chief Vincent Ogbulafor that his party was ready to take Kano and Lagos is an empty boast aimed at boosting his image.

In a statement, Chief Onyechere said: “Ogbulafor is simply colourless. Instead [...]

AWKA — THE worry of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate for the February 6, 2010 governorship election in Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, was yesterday deepened, as his 78-year-old father, Pa Simeon Soludo, was kidnapped in his home town, Isu-Ofia, in Ekwuluobia, Aguata Local Government Area of the state.

By Taye Obateru & Adedoyin Ojosipe

Jos — Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State has promised that the report on the last November 28 crisis in the state would not be allowed to gather dust but would be implemented for sustenance of peace in the state.

He gave the assurance yesterday while receiving the [...]

*Offer N2m for more clues

By Kingsley Omonobi

ABUJA — INSPECTOR-General of Police, Ogbonna Onovo, said yesterday that the Police have arrested two suspects in connection with the murder of The Guardian’s Assistant News Editor  killed in his home in Lagos on September 20, this year, just as he announced a N2 million reward for [...]

By  Dennis Agbo

ABAKALIKI — WIFE of Ebonyi State Governor, Mrs. Josephine is collaborating with the United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) to prevent maternal mortality and morbidity, particularly in the state.

Mrs. Elechi, who spoke at a dissemination and tool development workshop on “Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Law” in Abakaliki, identified ignorance, poverty, [...]

By  Tony Edike

ENUGU—FORMER Assistant National/South East Zonal Secretary of the PDP, Chief Okey Ezenwa, has said that the decision by the Anambra governorship candidate for the 2007 election, Dr. Andy Uba, to seek the reclamation of his mandate through the court was the only logical and reasonable thing to do.

According to him, this [...]