THE Senate, yesterday, adopted the first alterations to the 1999 Constitution giving the President a 14-day time frame to hand over to the Vice-President whenever he is on vacation or in a state of physical incapacitation.
A similar constitutional requirement was also put on governors.

DELTA State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, yesterday charged council chairmen across the state to embark on projects that would touch directly on the lives of the people.

THE United States Department of State, Wednesday, welcomed the return of President Umaru Yar’Adua to the country but warned that his return should not be used by his senior advisers to create uncertainty in the country’s polity.

By Emeka Mamah

KADUNA — The Primate of the Church of the Lord (Aladura) Worldwide, His Eminence, Rufus Ositelu, has urged President Umaru Yar’Adua to discard his seven-point agenda for the development of the country and concentrate on the provision of electricity and electoral reforms.

Ositelu also said the “so-called seven-point agenda” of President Yar’Adua [...]

By Anayo Okoli

Umuahia—ABIA State House of Assembly has called on the Federal Ministry of Works, Housing and Urban Development to ensure early completion of federal roads under rehabilitation in the state before the rains set in.

The House also urged the Ministry to show commitment in handling of projects in the South East zone, [...]

ASABA—The Organisation for the Advancement of Anioma Culture, OFAAC, the cultural platform of Anioma people will tomorrow in Asaba, give motorcycles, grinding machines, cutlasses/hoes, tailoring machines and cash, to over 150 beneficiaries.

ELDERS of Oben, Orogho,Ologbo-nugu and Urhue communities of Orhionmwon Local Government Council of Edo State, has appealed to the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to listen to the advice of the Benin monarch, Oba Erediauwa, by awarding the N3.3billion contract for the construction of the Oben-Umoghun road, to an indigenous contractor.

TO strengthen internal democracy within the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the party has ruled out automatic candidacy for any of its members in coming general elections.