By Chidi Nkwopara

OWERRI—A seventy-nine year old woman, Lady Mercy Onyirimba, who was kidnapped by hoodlums few days ago, is still being held in captivity by her abductors. Lady Onyirimba, who is the mother of former Majority Leader of Imo State House of Assembly, Chief Stanford Onyirimba, was kidnapped from her home in Umuduruegwelle, Umueze [...]

By Innocent Anaba

ABUJA — The Supreme Court has adjourned till  March 15, 2010 for hearing on the appeal by Governor Aliyu Wammako of Sokoto State in the suit challenging his election by the candidate of the DPP, Maigari Dingyadi, thereby halting further proceedings on the matter before  the Court of Appeal.

Also, the National [...]

The Ijaw in diaspora yesterday challenged Acting President Goodluck Jonathan not to go back in his promise to revive the fortunes of the country.

GOVERNOR Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State yesterday inaugurated the N5billion Ore Sunshine Mega City Plaza project to be situated on 153 hectares of land on the Ore-Sagamu expressway under a private-public sector joint partnership with the state.

AFTER about 11 years of disagreement over the deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry, labour and the Federal Government are set to close ranks as they agreed to set up a committee to work out modalities for implementation of the planned full deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry, with a special focus on measures to cushion its effects on Nigerians.

Judiciary workers in the South East zone have vowed not to return to work until Governors in the zone implement or enter into agreement with them to pay the Consolidated Judiciary Salary Structure, CONJUSS and scheme of service as provided in the 1999 constitution currently being paid by other states in the country.

A Kwale-based legal practitioner, Mr. Nelson Enumah has filed a motion seeking for an order of court to commit his judgment debtors, Delta Commissioner of Police and three other police officers to prison for failing to comply with an order of the court ordering them, Police, to pay him N.2m damages as well as returning his seized car.

DISTURBED by its loss in the February 6 gubernatorial election in Anambra State, the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, South East Zone yesterday, warned that it would no longer tolerate any act of indiscipline by its members in all the five states of the zone, especially as the party strategises for the 2011 general elections.

THE Action Congress, AC, in Oyo State has condemned alleged unfair display of might against some innocent handicapped civil servants who were relieved of their jobs by Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala.