THE new Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, Chief Dan Orbih, said weekend that for the party to be able to recapture power from Action Congress (AC), it must ensure that internal democracy was entrenched in the party.

Delta State chapter of the National Association of Women Judges in Nigeria met in Asaba, weekend seeking a lasting solution to the menace of child trafficking.

A Federal High Court sitting in Benin will on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 hear the company’s appeal against the judgment in favour of the Ogodo Family of Sapele in its land case with AT & P (African Timber and Plywood), a subsidiary of the company by the High Court in Sapele in July 1984.

By Chidi Nkwopara

OWERRI—Imo State government has described some of the federal roads in the state as “death traps,” and passionately appealed to the Federal Government to urgently reconstruct them to save lives.

The Deputy Governor, Dr. Ada Okwuonu, stated this when she played host to members of the Works Committee, House of Representatives, on [...]

IN what appears a twist to the pursuit of the deregulation of the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry, the Federal Government has refused to grant import licence to traders and petroleum products marketers.

The Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission has told Christian pilgrims to consider pilgrimage as a tool for nation building, which could serve as a veritable instrument for national re-branding.

Several persons were reportedly injured in the riverine settlement of Tungbo, Sagbama local government area of Bayelsa State, Saturday, following a violent clash between two rival cult groups.

UGHELLI—Ughelli-based social crusader, Mr. Emmanuel Emujakpor, has joined a former governorship aspirant in Delta State, Mr. Sunny Onuesoke, in his crusade against the indiscriminate dredging of their lands by illegal dredgers in the state.