EDO State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has said that 80 per cent of governors, National Assembly members and other public office holders in Nigeria cannot swear they were elected by popular demand in 2007, and so, it was the political elite and not the people that should be enlightened on the true canon of democracy.

This is one question that has been on the lips of the people of Ogun State since Monday evening’s gruesome murder of the 2007 governorship candidate of the Action Congress (AC) in Ogun State, Otunba Adedipupo Dina, at Ota, Ogun State. “DD Direct” as he was popularly referred to, was killed by unknown assailants who spared the lives of two other persons: His driver, Mr.Tunde Oyediran and a prophetess, Funmi Olagoke, who were in his black Toyota Camry Car with him when the incident happened.

A first class monarch in Ekiti State, the Attah of Aiyede, Oba Adeleye Orisagbemi, and the acting provost, College of Education, Ikere Ekiti, Dr Gabriel Olowoyo, were, Saturday, kidnapped at different locations and killed in an auto-crash as the abductors tried to escape with them.

The Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) has denied an alleged prophecy by its General Overseer, Prophet T.B. Joshua, that a lion would run amok in Warri and attack people.

A statement by the press department of the church said at no time did Joshua give such a prophecy, adding that all prophecies which always [...]

FOR the 200 or so victims of the 1996 Pfizer Trovan saga in Kano, it has been a long tortuous journey and even as multinational pharmaceutical giant agreed to pay an out-of-court settlement of $75 millon (about N10 billion) to the 88 families of patients involved in the trial, there may be no songs or dances of victory.