By Dayo Johnson

AKURE—APPOINTMENT of an Oba in Aboto, Ilaje local government area of Ondo State is presently causing ripples in the community as a group, the Mahin Kingdom Central Organisation described the proposed installation of the Oba as illegal.

Addressing newsmen, the secretary of Mahin Kingdom, Mr. Saanumi Idowu, said the purported move to [...]

…vow never to go back

By Ola Ajayi

IBADAN—SURVIVORS of the Jos crisis that claimed hundreds of lives returned to Ibadan yesterday in the Oyo State-owned commercial buses looking emaciated and troubled.
Among them were three serving members of the National Youth Service Corps posted to the city around July last year.

When they [...]

By Laja Thomas

LAGOS—The National Secretariat of the Mega Summit Movement has dissociated itself from the supposedly joint stakeholders meeting of Mega Summit Movement, MSM, and the National Democratic Movement, NDM, scheduled to take place in Abuja this weekend.

In a statement by Mallam Hamisu Turaki, Director, Media and Publicity, Dare Falade, Mobilisation, and Olusegun [...]

By  Enyim Enyim

ONITSHA—The Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Achebe, has advised politicians and governorship candidates for the February 6 governorship election in Anambra State, against rigging and violence during the exercise.
Igwe Achebe gave the advice,  when the governorship candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Dr Andy Uba, paid him a courtesy visit [...]

By Evelyn Usman

LAGOS — In an apparent move to address the frequent cases of clashes between military men and civilians  particularly motor park touts popularly known as agbero, the Nigerian Army has commissioned six vehicles that would convey officers and soldiers to and from duty.

The 45-seater luxury buses would be distributed to Army [...]

Ibadan— The University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan has built a Renal Transplant Centre that will take care of patients with kidney-related problems.

The Chief Medical Director, CMD, Prof. Abiodun Ilesanmi, said yesterday that the centre would soon be commissioned.

“All the needed equipment are ready for installation. We are yet to finish the construction of [...]

The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, yesterday, said the North is gradually becoming a problematic area because of recurring ethno-religious crises among other issues and called for the cooperation of leaders in the region to reverse the trend.

* As counsel opposes EFCC

By Emma Ovuakporie

ABUJA—Justice Umar Garba of the Federal High Court, Abuja, yesterday ruled that Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, Senator Nicholas Ugbane and seven other accused persons in the Rural Electrification Agency, REA, contract scam are to take their plea in the amended charges preferred against them by the Economic and [...]

AWKA—The Labour Party gubernatorial candidate in the February 6 2010 election in Anambra State, Dr. Andy Uba, has promised the Anambra people a comprehensive transport programme that will ensure rapid economic growth for the state if he is elected into office.

According to a statement by his campaign office, Dr. Uba said,  “our thrust will [...]

By Ise-Oluwa

ABUJA–Factional chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Chekwas Okorie, yesterday approached the Supreme Court, praying it to annul the verdict of the Abuja Court of Appeal which okayed his expulsion from the party.

Okorie made the request in his appeal to the apex court on a day he filed a [...]

Chair-man of the South South Peoples Assembly (SSPA), Cross River State chapter, Chief Ambrose Akpanika, has expressed surprise that President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, who signed an appropriation bill of over 100 pages, could not sign a one-page letter authorising Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan to act as president in his absence.

By Gbenga Ariyibi

ADO-EKITI—The Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, FERMA, has threatened to revoke the N500 million worth of road contracts being executed by some construction companies in different parts of the state because of alleged poor performance and not working to specification.

Disclosing this to newsmen yesterday, the Head of Federal Road Maintenance Agency, FERMA, [...]

By Emmanuel Elebeke

LAGOS—As  President Umaru Yar’Adua’s absence continues to generate reaction from Nigerians, Imo community resident in Lagos, have urged the National Assembly to be bold and patriotic enough by allowing the relevant sections of the Nigerian constitution take its course in resolving the matter.

The President-General of Imo State Town Development Association, Lagos [...]

By Patience Ogbodo

BAUCHI — Following the approval of new salary structure for members of Judiciary Staff Union of Nigerian, JUSUN, Bauchi State Chapter, the union has called off its three-month-old industrial action.

Addressing a joint press conference in Bauchi, Executive Secretary, Judicial Service Commission, Lawal Ibrahim and Chairman of JUSUN, Musa Abubakar Jahun, said [...]