EX-MILITANT commanders drawn from various camps that hitherto were operational during the creek war met with Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, expressing confidence that the meeting had afforded them the opportunity to address most of their immediate problems.

By  Tony Nwankwo

LAGOS—The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says it is ready to retake Abia State, which it lost to the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) in 2007.

Speaking in Lagos, preparatory to the party’s  rally in Umuahia, Abia Central,  this weekend, Lagos lawyer and party stalwart, Mr. Chinwengozi Obike, said the party was now vibrant [...]

A Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, Mr Sunny Aguebor, has urged the Federal Government to set up a security outfit in the Niger Delta where all the repentant militants would be employed.

THE three Delta State Polytechnics in Oghara, Ogwashi-Uku, and Ozoro and the State College of Physical Education, Mosogar, are now ghost campuses, as the indefinite strike embarked upon by unions in the institutions enters day three.

The Minister of State, Commerce and Industry, Theophilus Abah, the Director General, Nigerian Automotive Council (NAC), Gambo Yakubu, the representative of other manufacturing plants in Nigeria, Mr. Sani Hammadauda and other stakeholders yesterday demanded for an immediate increase in import tariff to keep Nigeria’s automobile sector competitive.

No less than fifty street children have been rehabilitated into a new home known as Destiny Child Centre in Calabar South, by the wife of the Cross River State governor, Mrs. Obioma Liyel Imoke.

PEOPLES Redemption Party (PRP) governorship candidate in the 2007 governorship elections in Delta State, Mr. Emmanuel Igbini, yesterday faulted the decision of the Post-Primary Education Board in Delta State to exclude non-Deltans who were successful in the recent recruitment of teaching and non-teaching staff for secondary schools in the riverine areas of the state.