By Laja Thomas

As the 2011 elections approach, the Mega Summit Movement, MSM, proponent of Mega Party has been advised to make provision of basic education, tackling unemployment and the promotion of trade and commerce its cardinal objectives.

Alhaji Lateef Jakande, former Governor of Lagos State, said  at the Mega Summit Movement, South-West Conference on [...]

By Tony Edike

ENUGU—THE Movement for the Actualization of a Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB,  has said that it has no plans  to disrupt the February 2010 governorship election in Anambra State.

The group said it had already arrested one of its former members, Nnamdi Kanu, for allegedly threatening to disrupt the Anambra election using [...]

By Oscarline Onwuemenyi

ABUJA—The Federal Government on Tuesday announced the ban, by January 1, 2010, of all bulk sales of lubricants to retailers nationwide.

The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Dr. Rilwanu Lukman, who made this known in an address to the Ministerial Committee charged with the responsibility of sanitizing the lubricant market, said the directive [...]

By Chinyere Amalu

ABUJA—Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defence must work in closer consultations in order to maintain a stronger foreign policy for the overall good of the country, Foreign Affairs Minister, Chief Ojo Maduekwe has said.

Maduekwe made this observation yesterday in Abuja when he received the Ministry of Defence [...]

Muslim Clerics across Nigeria yesterday condemned the attempted bombing of a US airliner by Farouk Mutallab, a 23-year old Nigerian, just as they denied the existence of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda in the country.

THE Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, and the Catholic Archbishop of Lagos Metropolitan See, Anthony Cardinal Okogie, have condoled with erstwhile military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, (rtd), on the death of his wife, Mrs. Maryam Babangida, in a US hospital.

FORMER governorship aspirant in Delta State, Mr. Sunny Onuesoke, has berated the state chapter of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, over its comment on the victory of Chief James Onanefe Ibori at the Federal High Court, Asaba on the 170-count charge preferred against him (Ibori) by the EFCC.

By Jimitota Onoyume
PORT-HARCOURT —  OFFENDERS of traffic rules in Rivers State are to be sent to psychiatric hospital in the state for attention.
Governor Chibuike Amae-chi made this known when he set up Road Traffic Manage-ment Authority to manage the traffic situation in the state capital.

By Lawani Mikairu, with agency report

Yemeni authority said, yesterday, that the Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a US-bound passenger jet was living there  until a few weeks ago, while President Obama of United States of America has ordered full investigation into the incident.

Also yesterday, the first photos emerged of Umar Farouk [...]

ABAKALIKI—IN order to consolidate on its  gains, fulfill promises to the people as well as meet unforeseeable challenges next year, the Ebonyi State Government has budgeted N76. 205billion, for the 2010 fiscal year.

Governor Martin Elechi read out the appropriation, yesterday at the chambers of the State House of Assembly,  where he presented the Appropriation [...]

AT least two persons have died as a result of health hazards allegedly suffered from oil spillage arising from the evacuation of stolen crude from two seized vessels, MT Akuada and MT Hope, anchored at the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) jetty in Warri.

A Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, Mr Ken Imasuagbon, has stressed the need for the National Assembly to urgently pass a law that would compel government to render assistance to orphanages.