By Emeka Mamah

Kaduna — Governor of Kaduna State, Mohammad Namadi Sambo said, yesterday, that the coming together of traditional rulers in the North shows their determination to ensure lasting solution to the Jos crisis.
Sambo also said that concrete steps must be taken to nip in the bud such violent crisis in the [...]

By Innocent Anaba

LAGOS—A Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere, yesterday, awarded N100 million as damages to Miss Uzoma Okere,  who was assaulted by four officers of the Nigerian Navy on November 5, 2008.

Ms. Okere had sued Rear-Admiral Harry Arogundade and four naval ratings, C.I. Jeremiah, S.A. Bullem, S.A. Kaniga and Francis Okolaogu, [...]

The Federal Executive Council, FEC, Thursday, said it is only President Umaru Yar’Adua who can declare himself incapacitated and not it, arguing that it lacks the powers to do so.

NO fewer than 18 persons have reportedly died of ailments suspected to have been caused by measles outbreak in the riverine settlement of Owukoro, Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa State.
Most of the victims, according to reports, were children and young people.

The man in the centre of the mystery lion rumour that rocked Warri, Delta State, earlier in the week, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, has dismissed insinuations of ownership of the lion.

UGHELLI—The member representing Udu/Ughelli Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Olorogun Solomon Ahwinahwi, has lauded Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan over his recent award by the Central Bank of Nigeria as the best in support for micro-finance ventures in the country.

Edo State governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has assured landlords of buildings on Airport Road in Benin City, demolished in the ongoing road dualisation project of compensation.

By Victor Ahiuma-Young

LAGOS — HUNDREDS of Nigerians yesterday took to the streets in Lagos, to celebrate the  international recognition of  Professor John Clement Uwemedimo as inventor of the globally used anti corrosive paints said to be indispensable in the petroleum and steel  industries.

Until a recent intervention by the courts both in Nigeria and [...]

IT was weeping and wailing for the wife of one of the Naval officers who lost his life in Tuesday’s Naval helicopter crash at Mmiri Ochiochi in Obodo Isiokpo, Ikwerre local government area of Rivers State.

ACTING Governor of Delta State, Prof Amos Utuama, has commended the member representing Ughelli South local government area in the State House of Assembly, Olorogun Taleb Tebite, for his various empowerment schemes in the constituency.

By Simon Adewale
A pressure group,  Ndokwa Youth World- Wide (NYWW), has condemned Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (DESOPADEC) over abandoned projects across  Ndokwa, despite the facts that the area got less number of projects executed by the commission in Delta State.

Arrange-ments for the hosting of the fourth Akwa Ibom State Economic Summit has been concluded, the Commissioner for Economic Development, Mr. Goddy Umoh, has said.

By  Chidi Nkwopara

OWERRI—Imo State Police Command has expressed serious concern, that despite government directives, hospitals and clinics in the state still refuse to treat victims of gunshot and road traffic accidents without police report.

The Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr. Linus Nwaiwu, in a statement in Owerri, insisted that hospitals and clinics [...]