By Gbenga Olarinoye

Osogbo—The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidates in the Wednesday re-run elections in Osun State have been declared winners by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Former chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Iyiola Omisore, was declared winner for the Ife/Ijesha senatorial district while Adeoye Adelakun, also emerged victorious in the Osogbo constituency [...]

In what could be described as a bizarre Christmas shocker, the family of the deputy governor of Imo State, Mrs. Ada Okwuonu are mourning the killing of one of the Police Orderlies attached to the deputy governor following a misunderstanding between the orderly and another Police escort in the deputy governors’ security team.

By Gbenga Olarinoye

OSOGBO—The authorities of the Fountain University, Osogbo have given scholarship to 38 students of the institution for the 2008/2009 academic session.

The Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor Hussein Oyelola Bukoye who disclosed this during the third matriculation ceremony at the main campus of the institution said 17 of the students were [...]

By Gbenga Ariyibi

ADO-EKITI—Ekiti State Governor, Engr. Segun Oni has urged  the people of the State to use the Christmas period to re-dedicate themselves to the service of God and work for the progress of the state.

Oni in his goodwill message to the people of the state equally urged them to obey the commandments [...]

By Peter Duru

MAKURDI — Benue state Governor, Mr. Gabriel Suswam has declared that government is bound by the social contract it entered with the electorate and that it would be failing in its responsibilities when the needs of life and basic infrastructures are denied the people.

Suswam, who spoke in Makurdi at the commissioning [...]

By Samuel Oyadongha

Yenagoa — Bayelsa State governor, Chief Timipre Sylva, says people of the state and Nigerians, generally, should see this year’s Christmas as a time to intensify prayers for the quick recovery of  President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.

Sylva praised Bayelsans for their commitment to peace in the Niger Delta and urged them to [...]

By Simon Ebegbulem

BENIN — ELDERS and political leaders from oil-rich Oben community of Edo State, yesterday, protested alleged failure by the Federal Government and the Niger Delta Develop-ment, NDDC, to award the over N2 billion contract for the construction of the Oben-Umoghun road to indigenous contractors.

They also vowed to chase away any foreign [...]

By Samuel Oyadongha

Yenagoa — The Academic Staff Union of Bayelsa State College of Arts and Science (ASUCAS) has called on the state governor, Chief Timipre Sylva, to call to order the Due Process and e-Governance Bureau in the state. The union claimed the bureau was intimidating the manage-ment of the college with its biometrics [...]

By Festus Ahon

UGHELLI — THE National Association of Delta State Students (NADESSTU) has impeached its Secretary-General, Mr. Ejesi Yemi Stanley, and enjoined  Delta State government to refrain from having dealings with him.

The association, in a communiqué issued at the end of its meeting at the University of Abuja and made available to newsmen [...]

By  Charles Kumolu

LAGOS—A GROUP, Warri Interest Group (WIG), has called on the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ogbonna Onovo, to call the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS)  in Delta State to order, alleging  that they had become tools in the hands of desperate politicians.

It also condemned the arrest and detention of some Itsekiri youths by [...]

WARRI—Chief Augustine Ukulor,  the Amananawei, traditional Prime Minister of Opuama community in Egbema Kingdom, Warri North local government area of Delta State, has reassured his people of his commitment towards attracting meaningful development to the community.

He gave the assurance while addressing the people last weekend at Opuama on the occasion to mark the one [...]

By Abdulwahab  Abdulah

LAGOS—An  Igbo man becoming a President in Nigeria come 2015, can only become a reality when the people work together under a national leader, who will be ready to defend the interest of the race without fear or favour.

The leader of the Igbo community in Lagos, Ojo chapter, Mr Chris  Okoye [...]

By  Chioma Obinna

LAGOS — Respite came the way of 26 Nigerians with various limb deformities as the Lagos State Government in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Nigeria District 9110 gave them free locally manufactured artificial limbs, Wednesday.

The artificial limbs were the first sets fabricated in Lagos from the newly built artificial limb [...]