…condemns increasing terrorism in Nigeria

By Ben Agande & Shaibu Inalegwu

ABUJA—Senators yesterday expressed worry over the lack of existing laws to strengthen the fight against terrorism in the country and called for the passage of laws that would put the country in a good stead to fight the scourge.

Already, a bill to combat [...]

CONTROVERSY surrounding former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s return to the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, seems not to have been over as Adamawa State chapter of the party has insisted that Atiku was yet to be re-registered in the state.

NIGERIANS may soon heave a sigh of relief from the epileptic electric power supply as the Presidency, yesterday, assured that it has sourced sufficient to power the old power generating plants across the country
Acting Presidential spokesman, Mr. Ima Niboro, who briefed state house correspondents, moments after a strategic meeting of the Presidential Committee on Power, said the good news was coming from the Ministers of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke.

LAGOS — The Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, grieves over the unconscionable murder of another journalist,  Mr. Edo Ugbagwu, a Judicial reporter of The Nation newspapers. The NGE commiserates with his family and colleagues at The Nation newspapers as he is buried this weekend in Oturkpo in Benue State.

A statement by the President of [...]

By Wole Mosadomi

MINNA — More facts have emerged on why former military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, is warning up to rule the country again.

National coordinator of Nationalists Movement, a group raised to actualise the dream of the presidential hopeful, Alhaji Nma Kolo, told journalists in Minna, yesterday, that the main aim of [...]

TWO trigger-happy policemen, Corporals Wafal Aminu and Victor Fabiyi have been condemned to death after being found guilty by a Port Harcourt High Court of killing a University of Port Harcourt, final year Geology student, Nnamdi Ajikere.

The Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, yesterday, ordered the Council of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, to produce a new Chief Executive Officer-designate to succeed its current Director-General/CEO, Professor Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke in the ongoing transformation by June.

By Godfrey Bivbere

ABUJA—TRANSPORT Minister, Alhaji Yusuf Suleiman, has said the ministry will soon embark on performance audit of activities of concessionaires to determine their efficiency after four years of their operations, even as the minister requested both the terminal operators and the clearing agents to forward position papers to the ministry.

The minister who [...]

DEPUTY Speaker of the House of Representatives, Bayero Nafada, who is also Chairman of the ad-hoc Committee of the House of Representatives on Review of the 1999 Constitution, yesterday, said that the National Assembly would create 10 new states, with five from the North and five from the South, by next year.