THE Assistant Inspector general of Police, Zone II, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar has taken over the investigation into Monday evening’s brutal killing of the Action Congress (AC) gubernatorial candidate in the April 2007 polls, Otunba Dipo Dina.

By   Dayo Benson and Vincent Ujumadu

AWKA—THE much publicised political debate for governorship candidates participating in the February 6, governorship election in Anambra State, was temporarily disrupted yesterday, when some of the candidates, who were not invited by the organisers, forced themselves into the podium to protest their exclusion.

The event was put together by [...]

…asks aggrieved PDP members to quit

By Ise-Oluwa Ige

ABUJA—The Abuja division of the Court of Appeal yesterday affirmed the nomination of former Governor of Central Bank, Professor Charles Soludo as the flag-bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the forth coming Anambra gubernatorial poll scheduled to hold on 6 February, [...]

* She says SSS refuses to release her passport

By Innocent Anaba & Emma Ovuakporie

ABUJA—The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, sealed off 17 more properties linked to the former Managing Director of Oceanic Bank Plc, Mrs Cecilia Ibru in Abuja and Lagos.

This was coming as Mrs Ibru told a Federal High [...]

…promises to find solution to ethno-religious crises

By Taye Obateru
Jos—Vice President, Goodluck Jonathan visited the crisis-ridden parts of the Plateau State capital yesterday, promising that necessary steps would be taken to avoid a repeat of the violence in the state or elsewhere in the country.

Speaking to newsmen after going round the areas [...]

By Ise-Oluwa Ige

ABUJA—A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, threw out a request by the Government of Rivers State to pronounce on the legality of the cession of about 76 oil wells, allegedly belonging to it, to Akwa Ibom State for want of jurisdiction.

The trial high court judge, Justice Adamu Bello, in [...]