By Victor Ahiuma-Young

PETROLEUM and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, has condemned the crisis in Jos, Plateau State and called on governors in the North to tackle the issues of the almajiris and street urchins who are under Islamic scholars and incorporate them into formal education as a way of reducing sectarian [...]

By Emma Amaize, Emma Arubi & Akpokona Omafuaire

WARRI — THE civil society in Delta State have given the National Assembly seven days within which to resolve the leadership crisis in the country or face their wrath.

The ultimatum was served, weekend, when civil society groups took to the streets of Effurun and  Warri, calling [...]

By Simon Ebegbulem

BENIN — BARELY one month after Federal Government withdrew soldiers attached to the Joint Task Force, JTF, code named  Operation Thunderstorm created by Edo State Government, the Bishop of the Anglican Diocese and state Chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Rev. Peter Imasuen, was abducted, yesterday, by suspected kidnappers.

It was [...]

By Ise-Oluwa Ige

ABUJA—An Abuja high court has thrown out a request by Mr Yusuf Tilde, the Chief Security Officer, CSO, to President Umaru Yar’Adua to stop hearing in an on-going controversial case alleging abuse of office against him.

An Abuja-based businessman, Mr Abdulkarim Bello Umar had taken out the writ against the President Yar’Adua’s [...]

By AbdulSalam Muhammad

KANO — An Industrial court sitting in Kano, Friday, ordered AfriBank Plc to pay full benefits based on current salary to no fewer than 506 staff disengaged by the bank recently.

Delivering judgment in Kano,Justice M. B. Dada said the bank was not able to contravene all the claims adduced by the [...]

Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has praised the Federal Government for creating an enabling environment for a free and fair House of Assembly re-run election in Etsako Central Local Government area.

FRIGHTENED residents flooded a military checkpoint to flee Jos, yesterday, after Muslim-Christian clashes that killed some 450 people and left scores of buildings burnt.

THE Court of Appeal sitting in Benin-City, Edo State, has upheld Action Congress’ (AC) appeal against the ruling of Delta State Governorship/Legislative Houses of Assembly Election Tribunal, which stuck out the petition by Temi Harriman challenging the result of the 2007 election.

OCTOGENARIAN and frontline nationalist, Chief Anthony Enahoro, weekend, disclosed that the continued absence of President Umaru Yar’Adua has foisted a power vacuum and constitutional crisis on Nigeria, noting that this situation has justified the great urgency for stakeholders to come together and form an alternative political platform that Nigerians can call their own.