By Tony Edike

ENUGU—GOVERNOR Sullivan Chime of Enugu State has announced plans by his government  to link all the 17 local government headquarters in the state to the state capital with good motorable roads before the end of his tenure.

Chime, who made the disclosure during the campaign tour of local government areas in Enugu [...]

YOUTHS in Niger Delta, under the aegis of the Niger Delta Forum (NDF) weekend called for the probe of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) following the delay in the release of the Presidential report on the Commission.

The Federal Government has directed that 24 hours protection be given by the Nigeria Police to guide all members of the National Youth Service Coprs (NYSC) serving in various parts of the country.

EX-MILITANT leaders — High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo; Ateke Tom, Victor Ben Ebikabowei, alias Boyloaf; Farah Dagogo and others, yesterday, joined other Nigerians in praying for the quick recovery of President Umaru Yar’Adua, who is on hospital bed at the King Faisal Hospital, Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.

By Demola Akinyemi

Ilorin—The Presidential Committee on Review of Tariff and Fiscal Incentives has been mandated to  generate  investment in the productive sector  that would help  create more jobs and make lives more bearable for the masses.

Chairman of the committee and Governor of Kwara state, Dr Bukola Saraki, speaking in an interview with journalists [...]

Five persons including a Police Inspector, weekend, lost their lives in separate auto crashes in Lagos, while the fate of two others still hangs in the balance as doctors are battling to save their lives.

AS Nigeria joins the rest of the world tomorrow to mark this year’s World AIDS Day, a non-governmental organisation, the Youth Development and Empowerment Foundation (YODEF), has advocated special focus on young people as more than half of new infection are between 15 and 29 years of age.

Scores of youths from Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, yesterday, took to the streets of Yenagoa, the state capital, calling for the resignation of the state deputy governor, Peremobowei Ebebi, over the conduct of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primaries in the council area.