Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has claimed responsibility for the botched Christmas Day bombing attempt of a US airliner and vowed further strikes on US targets, in an audio message broadcast Sunday.

The statement carried by Al-Jazeera satellite television warned Washington that the attack was meant as a similar message to that of the September [...]

The Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, is drifting without vision and could endanger the nation’s democracy, Senator Bode Olajumoke (PDP, Ondo North), and member of the party’s board of trustees has cried out.

By Festus Ahon

UGHELLI — THE member representing Bomadi Local Government Area in Delta State House of Assembly, Mr. Reginald Dombraye, has flayed Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, for calling  for the resignation of President Umaru Musa
Yar’Adua over of ill-health, saying the group’s call was not in the interest of the nation.

Dombraye, who [...]

By Emma Ovuakporie

ABUJA—The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, will today deploy key personnel in the directorial cadre to Awka ahead of the 6 February election as Prof.Maurice Iwu insisted that all field officers must undergo an intensive training at the Electoral Institute.

It was reliably gathered weekend that field officers to help conduct the [...]

Pentecostalism took a weird dimension in Umunakanu Owerre, Ehime Mbao Local Government Area of Imo State, when a pastor introduced a human-size casket into the crusade ground.

By Taye Obateru

Jos — A former Military Administrator of Delta State, Col. John Dung (rtd), has joined in the call that state governors be allowed to have greater control on state police commissioners and directors of the State Security Services to enable them  promptly contain security problems in their states.

This was coming as [...]

Oando Plc, Nigeria’s leading indigenous integrated energy solutions provider, today, opened the acceptance list for a  Rights Issue offer of 301,694,876 Ordinary Shares of 50 kobo each at N70.00 per Share  on the basis of one (1) new ordinary share for every three (3) ordinary shares of 50 kobo each held as at the close [...]

By Emeka Mamah

KADUNA — The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has said that the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Rilwanu Lukman, lied when he said labour has given  go-ahead to the Federal Government to deregulate the downstream sector of the petroleum industry.

NUPENG’s Deputy General Secretary (North), Comrade Adamu Song, made [...]

By Emmanuel Aziken

ABUJA—The forthcoming gubernatorial election in Anambra State must not be a do-or- die affair, President Umaru Yar‘Adua has been quoted as saying.

Senator Polycarp Nwite, Senior Special Assistant to the President (Political Matters) in a statement yesterday quoted the President as calling on all stakeholders and government agencies involved in the [...]

By  Tony Edike

ENUGU—THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, South East zone said yesterday, that it had uncovered a plot by its opponents in the February 6 governorship election to use the military to intimidate the people and rig the election.

The party said it had gathered from intelligence reports, that those behind the plot [...]

By  Charles Kumolu

AWKA—A CHIEFTAIN of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and leader of South East Caucus of the party, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu has  berated former PDP members, who decamped from the party after the Anambra State gubernatorial primaries, describing them as  selfish and uncommitted politicians.

He also threw his weight behind [...]