By Yemie Adeoye

LAGOS—The Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, has declared the selling of petroleum products at undesignated places (black market) as illegal.

DPR’s action, it was learnt, is aimed at stopping the sale of the products at deregulated prices across the country.

This also technically applies to filling stations that sell above government approved [...]

By Austin Ogwuda

Asaba — GOVERNOR Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has said he was not at all perturbed to read in the papers that his administration could not justify its huge revenue profile side by side its expenditure.

He said that the numerous projects executed and ongoing were there to con-vince doubting Thomases that [...]

LAGOS—THE General Overseer of Word Base Assembly, Dr. Humphrey Erumaka, has called on the government to minimise cost of being elected into public office to help checkmate the rate of corruption in the polity.

He made this known in a press conference on forthcoming prayer crusade tagged festival of power slated for January 3-17th 2010 [...]

By Gbenga Ariyibi

Ado Ekiti— In a bid to instill discipline among the school teachers in the state, Ekiti State government has given a sweeping power to the  principals to sack, employ or transfer any erring teacher.

Speaking during a meeting  with the principals under the aegis of All Nigerians Conference of Principals of Secondary [...]

By Emma Arubi

WARRI — GOVERNOR Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has challenged an Itsekiri group to show evidence of payment of post-amnesty packages to some notable Itsekiri youth leaders.

Some Itsekiri youths had earlier this week addressed the press, alleging that some of their leaders negotiated and diverted to themselves post-amnesty packages meant for [...]

By Evelyn Usman

LAGOS — Police authorities in Lagos have revealed that they were closing in on killers of a business woman who was shot dead seven months by unknown gun men at the premises of Sacred Heart Cathedral Church, Apapa Lagos.

This development, according to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Marvel Akpoyibo, [...]